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To keep very long Word documents readable and clear, it’s always a good idea to make a table of contents, here are some tricks to make it easier
A diploma thesis, long document or advertisement. There are countless reasons to learn to summarize in Word. Fortunately, the Microsoft service has a built-in indexing feature. But there are some little tips that should be followed.
Let’s start with the basics, the table of contents is the initial table of contents with headings that point to the appropriate section and chapter. It’s a quick and easy way to find what you’re looking for without scrolling too much. Some knowledge of Word is necessary to create an effective table of contents. If this is the first time we open a document with this program, we will have a lot of difficulty creating a table of contents, but luckily in Word, almost everything we can do is extremely intuitive.
Create table of contents in Word
To start creating a table of contents in Word, we must first go to the References section and then to the Table of Contents heading. Several options are available. Automatic or manual tables. Sure, the first ones are faster, but if you want to customize your recap and don’t want to be limited to the standard one, the second option is better. An individual table of contents can also be saved for future use. Before choosing a table of contents, however, the most important thing is to apply the style to the title of the selected paragraph. From the Summary header, after each change to the header styles, we need to click Update Summary to validate our changes.
Edit Title Style
When we move on to the header styles and apply a title font, we have several options to choose from, and often they may not fit our desired graphic style. At first, we don’t worry about it. The table of contents will require clear reference points. But when the list of headers to be displayed in the summary is complete, we can go ahead and change the font, size and color to our liking. It is important not to remove the Title style. Otherwise, it will no longer be considered an element of the table of contents. We can also give the title and subtitle a different color, and after pressing the Update to table of contents button, the changes will also be visible in this section.
Include other snippets in the table of contents
Word includes by default only the parts marked as Title in the table of contents, in its variants 1 through 9. But what if we want to include a graphic or other piece of text in the table of contents? In this case, we need to go back to the References section and then to the Table of Contents section. Select Customize Table of Contents from the drop-down menu. In the menu that opens, click on Options. In the list that opens, scroll through the list of headings that are recognized as headings, ie headings 1 to 9. After completing this list, we can insert our own style, which is recognized as headings.
