After you have created a table of contents in Word, you can customize the way it appears. Customizing your table of contents applies your preferences to your existing table. Like what you see, select OK. If you're not happy with the look, just select Cancel and all changes are forgotten. Your table of contents will still be there.
To customize your existing table of contents:
- 2011 Microsoft Word Table of Contents (Mac) Step 1: Open your document and locate the Home tab. Step 2: Highlight the first heading and select Heading 1. Hint: Consistently formatting your headers will ensure your table of contents is properly paginated. Step 3: Follow Step 2 to identify all remaining headings in the document.
- The manual TOC shown at the beginning of Demo: Let Word create your table of contents is a worst-case scenario: the user has typed in the titles and then pressed the period key to get a row of leader dots, stopping at an approximate location to type in the page number.
To update a table of contents in Word, right-click on the table. Choose “Update Field.” Select either “Update page numbers only” or “Update entire table.”. On the References tab of the Ribbon click Table of Contents Custom Table of Contents. In the Table of Contents dialog box, click Modify. If the Modify button is grayed out, change Formats to From template. In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.
Go to References > Table of Contents.
Select Custom table of contents.
Use the settings to show, hide, and align page numbers, add or change the tab leader, set formats, and specify how many levels of headings to show. For more info, see Custom table of contents .
Format the text in your table of contents
Go to References > Table of Contents > Custom Table of Contents.
Select Modify. If Modify is grayed out, change Formats to From template.
In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.
In the Modify Style pane make your changes.
Select OK to save changes. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the levels that you want to display in your table of contents.
To customize your existing table of contents:
Go to References > Table of Contents.
Select Custom table of contents.
Use the settings to show, hide, and align page numbers, add or change the tab leader, set formats, and specify how many levels of headings to show.
Format the text in your table of contents
Go to References > Table of Contents > Custom Table of Contents.
Select Modify. If Modify is grayed out, change Formats to From template.
In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.
In the Modify Style pane, make your changes.
Select OK to save changes. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the levels that you want to display in your table of contents.
To customize your existing table of contents, or create a new table:
Manual Table Of Contents Mac Word 2017
Go to References>Table of Contents>Insert Table of Contents.
If you've already got a table of contents, customizations will be applied. If not, this will insert a new customized table.
Use the settings to show, hide, and align page numbers, add or change the tab leader, set formats, and specify how many levels of headings to show. For more info, see Custom table of contents .
Word Table Of Contents Template
Format the text in your table of contents
Edit Table Of Contents In Word
Go to References > Table of Contents > Insert Table of Contents.
Select Modify. If Modify is grayed out, change Formats to From template.
In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.
In the Modify Style pane make your changes.
Select OK to save changes. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the levels that you want to display in your table of contents.