Creating a Table of Contents (TOC) in Word 2003-PC

There are two steps to creating a TOC:

1. Mark the text in your document that you want in the TOC. Marking the text is a way of identifying a particular chunk of text, such as a chapter title or section heading, that will be included in the TOC.
2. Collect that marked text together in one place.

You can mark the text you want to include in your TOC in the following ways:

·         Applying heading styles

·         Applying outline levels 

Heading styles (May change the format of your text)

1.       Highlight the text you want in the TOC

2.       Click the Style drop-down menu and choose a heading number.  The higher the number, the more indented it will be as in an outline.

Outline Levels (Use if you do not want your text format to change)

1.       Bring up the Outline Toolbar.  Click View, Toolbars, Outlining

2.       Highlight the text you want in the TOC

3.       Click the drop-down on the Outline Toolbar and choose an Outline level.  The higher the number, the more indented it will be.

Once the text is marked, it's time to collect it all together in the TOC. This is where Word does the work for you.

1. First, click your cursor where you want the TOC to appear, usually at the beginning of the document.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Reference and click Index and Tables.
3. Click the Table of Contents tab.  If you want to use the default options, click OK to create the TOC.

Once you've built your TOC, you'll probably have to maintain it. If you include more headings in your document, or simply add more content, you'll want the TOC to include the new headings and show the right page numbers.