Set Up Table Of Contents Form For Free

in this Microsoft Word tutorial I want to show you how to set up a table of contents for your Word document and as you can see here I've got a document from NASA in this case this is a 10 page document so a pretty long document and a table of contents really might be helpful but imagine instead of a 10 page document what if I had an 80 page document or 200 page document in those cases setting up a table of contents would be even more important now the first thing you need to know about setting up a table of contents in Word is that in order to do it properly your document has to use headings so you can see here at the top in the Styles group on the Home tab home ribbon it says heading 1 this particular document doesn't seem to have those so I'm gonna go in and put some into this document so here where it says introduction I'm gonna type in section 1 colon introduction now this could also be chapter 1 it could be part 1 however you want to call that is fine but then I'm gonna highlight it and go here and select heading 1 so that's my first heading and now that I've set up this heading one of the nice things about that is you get a little arrow that you can use to minimize or hide temporarily the contents of that heading or in this case that section and then I can just click to bring that back again I'm gonna browse down the document of ways and find section 2 here we go I would like this to be my section 2 I'll just type in section 2 highlight that and click on heading 1 notice that now it has a two to the left now it would have made more sense for me to put these in as this document was created but since it's a pre-existing document I have to do it this way give me a minute to add a few more headings for the different sections of this document and then I'll resume the video ok great I've set up now five sections or headings really in my word document now that my document has headings I can just go to the references tab and if you don't see that tab for some reason you just need to write click on the toolbar and choose customize the ribbon and make sure that references is selected so here on the references tab the references ribbon here in the table of contents group you'll see table of contents and if you click on that you can set up an automatic table of contents there's a couple of different formats for that you can also set up a manual table of contents and this one is quite a bit more work there are also other options you can get tables of contents from office comm you can make a custom table of contents and you can do some other things I almost always just stick with automatic table 1 or automatic table 2 and the differences are pretty subtle here I mean this one says table of contents this one says contents and there may be a few other really minor differences but I'm just gonna go with contents and I clicked on it and notice what it did it added a page to my document this used to be a 10 page document now it's an 11 page document and...