Word's table of contents, by default, has no formatting. You can add formatting directly, but you'll have to reapply it every time you update the table. Instead, learn how to modify the table's ...

In this post, we will show you how to Use, Customize, Edit, Update, Remove a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word the easy way.

Word will create and insert the table of contents at the specified location. You can then navigate to a heading quickly by holding the CTRL key and clicking on the entry you want to jump to.

When you insert the table of contents, Word uses all text styled with one of the built-in heading styles. In this case, we kept things simple and used only one heading level, Heading 1.

When your Word documents approach novel—or even novella—length, it may be time to give readers a table of contents.

If this next page is to be a table of contents for the book, type a title such as Table of Contents and then choose References, Table of Contents, Insert Table of Contents.

If the Table of Contents is not updating in your Microsoft Word document, you can use these methods to resolve the issue successfully.

Here are the steps we use in Microsoft Word 2008 and 2011 to create our TOC. Create a fresh page and add Table of Contents text line, formatted with your favorite header style.