Manual Table of Contents

 

If we have not made use of different heading styles in our document, we can still insert a table of contents.
It would then be a time consuming activity, but it can be done.

To manually add a table of contents, first select the text line you want in your Table.
And then click the button “Add Text” under the tab “References” in the ribbon.
This opens a drop-down menu with different level settings.
Click the level you wish to assign to the selected text.

Repeat this for each line of text that you want in your Table.
When all are inserted, first select the location in your document where you want to insert the table of contents, and click the “table of contents” in the ribbon.
This opens the drop-down menu where we can choose one of the three pre-formatted tables, or “Insert Table of Contents …”

When you choose the last “Insert Table of Contents …”, you get the dialog “Table of Contents”I have already discussed this in Lesson 45.

Creating a table of contents

The format of an index can be modified by selecting all text in the Table, and using the formatting options under the tab “Home” in the “Font”.

But whenever we update our index, it will appear back in the standard format.

So a better way is to click on the “Table of Contents” in the ribbon, and selecting “Insert Table of Contents” from the drop-down menu.
In the “Table of Contents” dialog that appears click the “Modify” button.
A second dialog “Style” appears.

In this dialog we can see different contents, abbreviated as Toc 1 to Toc9.

Select the contents of which you want to change the format, and click the button “Modify”.

This opens up yet another dialog box:

At the top of the dialog box we see the name of the style, in this case Toc 1.
In the middle of the dialog we see the formatting, such as at that time for this style.
We can change the font, letter height, bold, italic, color, alignment, line spacing, and any other settings.
If you prefer to use dialog to format anything, click the “Format” and choose from the drop-down list, the item you want to see in the dialog box.

Bottom of the dialog we have a few options.
When “Automatically Update” is checked, the changes you make in this dialog will be automatically reflected on the text to which this style was used in your document.
The rest of the options seem to be all clear.
Click the OK button when you have entered all your options.

Removing a table of contents

To remove a table of contents, click the “Table of contents” in the ribbon, and choose from the drop-down menu “Remove Table of Contents”.
It is very obvious but I still wanted to mention.

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