Word: Table of Contents articles revisited
September 14, 2011I get a LOT of searches on this blog for articles on creating Tables of Contents (TOC) in Word, and fixing them when things go wrong. So I thought it might be useful to have a single post that links to all those articles in the one place.
Creating an automated Table of Contents
- Word 2003:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/word-2003-create-an-automatic-table-of-contents/ - Word 2007 and later:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/word-2007-create-an-automatic-table-of-contents/
Modifying a Table of Contents
- Modifying the styles:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/word-2003-modify-toc-styles/ - Modifying the alignment/tab settings:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/word-modify-table-of-contents-tab-settings/ - Removing hyperlinks in a TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/word-2003-removing-hyperlinks-in-a-toc/ - Getting rid of odd styles in a TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/word-getting-rid-of-odd-styles-in-an-auto-toc/ - Create a numbered Appendix style and add it to the TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/word-2007-create-a-numbered-appendix-heading-style/
Fixing issues with a Table of Contents
- Page 2 for all page numbers:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/word-2003-page-2-everywhere-in-table-of-contents/ - Highlighting showing in the TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/word-highlight-remains-even-after-ive-cleared-it/ - Text butting up against the page numbers:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/word-text-butting-up-against-page-numbers-in-a-toc/ - Pictures (or unwanted normal text) in a TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/pictures-in-a-word-table-of-contents/ - TOC entry splits over lines between section number and text:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/word-fixing-a-table-of-contents/ - TOC won’t update:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/word-2007-table-of-contents-wont-update/ - Getting rid of the ‘Jason’ tab (an unwanted tab) in a TOC:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/word-getting-rid-of-the-jason-tab-in-a-toc/ - Getting a two-line heading onto one TOC line:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/word-getting-a-two-line-heading-onto-one-line-in-the-table-of-contents/ - Table borders don’t hold when you change them manually: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/word-table-borders-dont-hold/
Other
- Adding a link to the TOC to the Quick Access Toolbar so you can jump to it quickly (Word 2007 and later only):
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/word-2007-add-toc-shortcut-to-qat/ - Adding a TOC for a section:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/word-adding-a-toc-for-a-section/
Related posts about lists of tables and figures
- Automated table of figures:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/word-2003-automated-tables-of-figures/ - Table and Figure numbering: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/table-and-figure-numbering/
- List of tables/figures won’t update: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/word-sometimes-a-list-of-tablesfigures-just-wont-update/
[Links last checked March 2012]
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Wow! I am so glad I stumbled on this site — you information is fantastic! Do you know how, in a lettered list (a., b., c., etc), I can bold the just the letter b. and the text line that follows? It seems the letters are all married and I can’t bold one without the others. This is for a guide that has the answers to a classroom multiple choice activity, so every question will have a different letter/line in bold. Any ideas?
Hi Dawn
Go to the second bullet item in the ‘Changing the styles’ section at the end of this blog post of mine: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/word-2007-taming-multilevel-list-numbering/. That should help. If you still having trouble, follow steps 1 to 6 in the ‘Step 1’ section of that blog post.
–Rhonda