If you’re working with a big document, a table of contents adds quick navigation. Thankfully, creating a table of contents in Word is easy and it’ll update itself automatically as you add more to the document.
Word’s automatic table of contents generator takes each heading you add to a document, and then creates the table of contents based on that. If you plan on creating a table of contents, make sure you style each of your section titles with a heading.
- Click an empty paragraph where you want to insert the table of contents.
- Click the References tab.
- Click Table of Contents and then select the appearance you want to use.
That’s it. Word automatically updates that table of contents any time you add or alter a header.