Table Of Contents

In the voice of usefull information it is I write this post.

Programming is the name of the game. However there are often those nigley jobs that have to be done. Those secondary, even tertiary tasks that are small, unlikable and unavoidable.

It is in this manner that I hope to make the lifes of everyone who has to write a report that bit easier.

The contents section at the beginning of any report is always best left done to the end. Before i knew this feature of Word, I hated doing this. Every section removal, chapter addition or page change would lead to a slog to the contents section to make sure that everything else matched.

Alas it was pointed out, as is now to you, that Microsoft Word has a nifty feature of generating Table of Contents automatically for you.

Here's how you do it.

Step 1 Go through your document and give each chapter heading you want to appear in the contents a style format h1. Thats right, select the text and go to styles. From there just chose h1.

Step 2: Now inside every chapter, if there is important bits that you also want to appear in the contents, select it and style it with the h2 format.

Step 3: At the page you want to insert the table, choose Insert > Reference > Index and Tables. Click on the Table of Contents tab and then click OK.

Step 4: Edit it to your hearts desire. If you had made changes to the document and the contents is not reflecting this, press F9 for options on updating and editing it.

There you have it. My first usefull information post. I had to give in a report today and this was most useful. Now for you rascals who don't know this get back to work and give me ten lines.

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