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Insert a table of contents

Insert a table of contents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Insert a table of contents

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- [Host] In a previous video I showed you that setting your headings to headings one, two, and three in the Styles menu makes it easy when you're using the navigation pane on the side to quickly jump around. And this is especially useful if you have a long document. However, it's very useful when you go to build a table of contents for your document because Word can do it automatically and very easily. We're going to do that right now. To get started, go through your document, set your text to the right heading, and you do that again by highlighting your text and selecting either heading one, two, or three depending on where it's nested in your document right now. This one's set to heading one, and I can go through and click on the text and take a peek at the styles pane. I can indeed see that all of my text and headings are correctly set, so we're good to go. I'll place the cursor where I want the table of contents to appear. And now we head to the ribbon and you would think you need…

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