Increasing this number to the maximum now should prevent you from having to change it later or miss headings out of your table of contents.Ĭlick “OK” to create your table of contents. But per the Student Supplement, the table of contents should include “every element of the paper that follows” (§3.2). You may not have that many heading levels (and probably shouldn’t). Still on the “Table of Contents” tab in the “Table of Contents” dialog box, also find the “Show levels” option. So it’s easiest just to add them there rather than remove them everywhere else.) (If you’re following the Student Supplement, you’ll have the dotted leader only for your primary headings (§3.2). Where you see “Tab leader,” change the option from “……” to “none.” Set the basic formatting for your table of contents. (The names are quite creative, aren’t they?) 2.3. This will open the “Table of Contents” tab in the “Table of Contents” dialog box. But it’ll probably be easiest for you to use the “Custom Table of Contents…” option at the bottom of the “Table of Contents” button menu. Word has a few different tables of contents predefined. Go to the “References” tab, find the “Table of Contents” section, and click the “Table of Contents” button. Otherwise, the first entry in your table of contents will be “Contents.” ?Īfter you’ve typed and formatted this heading, place your cursor on the next line available for text below the heading. It’s important you format the word “Contents” directly, or at any rate, not with the primary heading style.
But don’t use the style you created to format all your other primary headings (e.g., “Heading 1”). This will be centered and all capital letters if you’re using the Student Supplement (§2.6). Then, type “Contents” at the top of this page, and format it like a primary heading. Place your cursor at the start of the page in your document where you want to insert your table of contents (e.g., the page numbered “ii”). Once you have your document prepared: 2.1. 2 Then come back here, and go through the steps in the next section to add your table of contents.
#MAKE TABLE OF CONTENTS WORD DOCUMENT UPDATE#
If either of these isn’t true, update your document accordingly. You’ve set up the page numbers for your table of contents in Word as described in the Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style.You’re using heading styles to format the headings within your document.So for the purposes of this tutorial, I’m going to assume two things: 1 Rather than discussing all of these, I’m going to describe what seems the simplest method. Word can manage a table of contents multiple ways. Creating a table of contents manually can be a pain and consume much more time and attention than it should.įortunately, you can let Word do the heavy lifting by creating a dynamic table of contents that updates automatically with your document.