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simple way to create table of contents?

by Vanquish
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Im using microsoft word to create my first e book, im wondering if their is easier way to create a table of contents rather than going through the book manually and jotting down the page numbers?
#contents #create #simple #table
  • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
    If you formatted it correctly - then there is. "Correctly" in this context meaning that your chapter/section titles are headings (aka h1), subtitles are h2... etc.

    If yes, then click on Insert > Reference > Index and Tables and follow the instructions.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikecorp
    I think you can get some ready made templates off the net and then just edit that.
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  • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
    I don't know about older versions, but Word 2007 has a built-in TOC feature under the reference tab. If you have an older version, then I'm sure that version's documentation will have something about that.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
      Originally Posted by CurtisN View Post

      I don't know about older versions, but Word 2007 has a built-in TOC feature
      It is there in MS Word for ages... But no tool will help in case you didn't prepare your text for it, as I wrote above.

      If you just used the rudimentary font size+bold and similar styles to style your chapter titles, instead of making them heading (h1, h2, h3, h4 etc.) then no tool will be able to create TOC.
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  • Profile picture of the author new2ebiz
    If you have already typed a manuscript; you could use find and replace to make each chapter header the proper format; h1, h2... etc, then use the TOC feature to create the table. I always end up using the help function to find the command for it, never able to remember where is is.
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  • Profile picture of the author pjCheviot
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    The Pension Guy has it.

    Training overview here http://office.microsoft.com/training...RP011356781033
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