HOW TO MAKE TABLE OF CONTENT IN WORDS

You cannot generate any automatic tables unless you first use styles effectively throughout your document. Microsoft Word can scan your document and find everything in the Heading 1 style and place it on the first level of your table of contents, any Heading 2's on the second level, and so on.

If you want an automatic table of contents, you must label all of your chapter titles and front matter headings (for example, "Dedication" and "Acknowledgements") in the style. Heading 1. All major headings within your chapters should be labelled as Heading 2. All subheadings should be labelled Heading 3, and so on.

If you used Heading styles in your document, creating an automatic table of contents is simple.

1. Make sure you put your cursor in the place where you want your table of contents to be.
2. Insert Table of Contents from the References Ribbon. Clicking on the arrow next to the icon for the table of contents will bring up a menu. Select Insert Table of Contents....
3. You should note that this option is called Custom Table of Contents in Word 2013.
4. Click the Modify button to make changes to your table of contents' style. For example, if you want more space between items on Level 1 and Level 2, or you want all of your Level 1 items to be bold, click the Modify button.
5. To change which headings show up in your table of contents, you can change the number of levels that appear in the Show levels: pull-down menu.
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   Click OK to put your table of contents in.
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The table of contents is a quick look at the headings and page numbers in your paper. It's always possible to make changes to it by right-clicking on it and selecting Update field when you want to. Make sure you notice that when you click on a table of contents, it will turn grey. This means that it is getting information from somewhere else, which is why it looks this way.