Assign Styles Every word in the document has some style assigned to it. If you are manually making changes it is easy to miss a paragraph or a few words. If you edit a portion of the document it will probably insert the default style. All titles should have a title style. Paragraphs should have a paragraph or body style and list, a list paragraph style and etc. Use Applied to Create a Table of Contents If your document is formatted and if all titles are styled with the Header style, it is easy to make a Table of Content. Create a new cover/first page. You can do this by positioning the cursor just before the first character on the first page and use the keystroke CTRL + Enter or position your cursor and go to the Ribbon, select Insert, and Command Insert Blank Page. Place your cursor at the top of the page and Go to the References Tab, Table of Contents Grouping, and Select Table of Contents. You can either insert an automatic TOC style or you can manually create the style and look you want. If you are looking for the familiar method of inserting a TOC, use the drop-down and select Insert Table of Contents. If you like the Automatic Table of Contents you see, select one of those. If your document will primarily be accessed online, you may decide to create If you need hyperlinks leave the 'Use hyperlinks instead of page number' checked. The links will be attached to the titles. If you want the typical page numbers following a Tab leader then uncheck the hyperlink option and pick out the type of Tab leader you want and the type of Format. While you are in the TOC settings, take a look at the Options Button. This is where you can assign a Heading Style to a TOC level. You may never need to know this unless you are creating a document that requires Tables of Tables and Tables of Figures also in the document. Once a document is styled and formatted....you can make many editing changes, update page numbers and TOC with one click. You can add Tables of Figures, Tables of Authority and Indexes with a point and click. Now you can control the document instead of it controlling you. If you are working on a large document that requires Tables of Tables and Tables of Figures you will need to assign a Heading style to those also. I recommend using Styles that are seldom used such as Header 5 and
Assign Styles Every word in the document has some style assigned to it. If you are manually making changes it is easy to miss a paragraph or a few words. If you edit a portion of the document it will probably insert the default style. All titles should have a title style. Paragraphs should have a paragraph or body style and list, a list paragraph style and etc. Use Applied to Create a Table of Contents If your document is formatted and if all titles are styled with the Header style, it is easy to make a Table of Content. Create a new cover/first page. You can do this by positioning the cursor just before the first character on the first page and use the keystroke CTRL + Enter or position your cursor and go to the Ribbon, select Insert, and Command Insert Blank Page. Place your cursor at the top of the page and Go to the References Tab, Table of Contents Grouping, and Select Table of Contents. You can either insert an automatic TOC style or you can manually create the style and look you want. If you are looking for the familiar method of inserting a TOC, use the drop-down and select Insert Table of Contents. If you like the Automatic Table of Contents you see, select one of those. If your document will primarily be accessed online, you may decide to create If you need hyperlinks leave the 'Use hyperlinks instead of page number' checked. The links will be attached to the titles. If you want the typical page numbers following a Tab leader then uncheck the hyperlink option and pick out the type of Tab leader you want and the type of Format. While you are in the TOC settings, take a look at the Options Button. This is where you can assign a Heading Style to a TOC level. You may never need to know this unless you are creating a document that requires Tables of Tables and Tables of Figures also in the document. Once a document is styled and formatted....you can make many editing changes, update page numbers and TOC with one click. You can add Tables of Figures, Tables of Authority and Indexes with a point and click. Now you can control the document instead of it controlling you. If you are working on a large document that requires Tables of Tables and Tables of Figures you will need to assign a Heading style to those also. I recommend using Styles that are seldom used such as Header 5 and