Have you ever tried to create a table of contents in your document? If you’ve entered the page numbers and headings manually, you’ll know that it’s a huge pain to try to keep everything updated and to keep the page numbers correct.

 

If you’ve never encountered a table of contents, it’s a map to your document. It contains a list of each page in your document and briefly describes what can be found on that page. It can be as simple as a list of pages, or as complex as a list of chapters with sub-headings.

 

Luckily, Word has a tool to help you quickly and painlessly create and update tables of contents (also known as TOCs). In this lesson, we’ll learn about the basics of TOCs and we’ll also cover three ways of creating them.