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have you ever spent too much time making a table of contents manually in Microsoft Word then later one to make changes to your document to find out that many items in your table of contents also need what is a faster and more accurate way we’re going to learn how to automatically create table of content and update it quick it’s document me looks familiar from previous quicktec you have a title page an area for a table of content and some text in order to automatically create a table of content we need to make sure that are heading for the very second are formatted with the style do this by put in your cursor on one of the heading and then go to the Home tab of the style section and click heading 1

you can do this for the next time as well and you’re not locked into the default heading style you can change the way the text looks by Highline it

making changes

men go back to the style section right click on heading wine

a quick update heading one to match selection then continue marking the other headers as head in what

I also want to point out meet under the show section the navigation pane this allows us to quickly jump from one heading to another

actually like the way my head in the wrestling look so I’m going to change them back by selecting the texts I like the up doing it just like I did before but I’ll text you right quick head and one in which we have all the headers marked as heading what we are ready to create a table

put your cursor where you want to insert table of content

go to the references tab table of contents in select tables contact

click on insert table of content feel free to explore these different options

you’re pretty much only paying attention to the way that heading one looks here since we’re not using any other heading do like the way it look like okay and there we have it

the great thing about this table is that a smart enough to know when we make changes to the other section for example if I want to change my the titles of ahead of me

and I want to move it to the next page for the page break control center

we need the table to recognize these changes will it. I go back up to the table of content

right-click it and select update field

can check update the entire table click okay

any changes that we made are automatically updated now you know how to create an automatic table of contents and update it Microsoft Word

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