Creating a Table of Contents
Once you have applied heading styles in a document, you can create a table of contents. Click Insert on the menu bar, point to Reference and click Index and Tables.
The Index and Tables dialog box opens.
Click the Table of Contents tab and pick a Format. The Print Preview box shows a sample of this format. The “Show page numbers” check box is selected by default so the table of contents will include a page number for each heading. If your document contains three levels of headings, you can leave the "Show levels" setting at 3.
The page numbers are hyperlinks that will take you to the document section indicated by the heading if you press CTRL while clicking on the link. Since the table of contents is not updated automatically, when you revise your document, you must right-click in the table of contents and click Update Field to update the page numbers and changes (or press F9). Go on to the next content module in the Intermediate Word course, Creating an Index.
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