Using customized heading styles:

When you use custom heading styles in your document, you can also use it in your table of contents.
First place the cursor in your document at the place where you want to insert the table of contents.
Then click the “Table Of Contents” tab under “References” in the ribbon.
Select the “Insert Table of Contents” option from the bottom of the drop-down menu.
This opens the “Table of Contents” dialog box.
Click the “Options” button in the dialog box.
This opens a “Table of contents Options” dialog box.
The check box, “Styles”, is checked, by default.
On the left side, we find the available styles.
On the right side, we find the level that is assigned to that style.
As you can see, in Figure 1, below, Level 1 is assigned to Header 1, Level 2 is assigned to Heading 2, and Level 3 is assigned to Heading 3.  This is the default setting.  To change the default settings, remove the the numbers(levels) from heading style-settings, from the boxes Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 (Figure 3)
If you scroll down, you will see the custom heading styles (Figure 2).

Place the numbers 1, 2 (levels) in the appropriate boxes (Figure 4).

Click OK when you’re done.
And click OK in the previous dialog box.
This gives us a table of contents based on customized heading styles .

 

Updating the Table of Contents:

When we have made changes in our document, for example, we have added a chapter between chapter 2 and chapter 3 and, so, we must change the contents.
To do this, position the cursor at the top of the Table.
Click the “Update Table” (1) button.

 

This opens a dialog window with two options.

1. Update page numbers only
2. Update entire table
The first option is selected. This updates the page numbers when we have deleted or added data to our document.
The second option will delete all changes that have been made in our document.
This includes both the page numbers, along with the various existing or newly inserted headings, at the various levels.

So, if you have inserted an entire chapter between 2 and 3, select the second option: “Update entire table”.

Click OK in the dialog box.
The chapter you have just inserted between chapters two and three, will be included in the Table.

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