Table of Contents

You should put a Table of Contents at the start of your coursework, showing which pages the various sections of the coursework are on:

Before you can make a Table of Contents you must go through your entire document and assign heading styles to the headings that you want to appear in the table of contents.  This is done as follows:

  1. Choose the first section of your coursework and click on its heading:
  2. On the Word toolbars, there is one section that tells you the style of whatever you have clicked on.  This will probably say normal.  If it does, change it to say Heading 1:
     
  3. Repeat this for every section heading that you want to appear in your Table of Contents.

Now you are ready to put the table of contents into your coursework:

  1. Go to the start of your document, and click where you want the table of contents to appear.
  2. Click on Insert, then Index and Tables...
  3. This will display a dialog box where you should click on the Index and Tables tab:
  4. Click on OK and your Table of Contents will appear in your document.

Tip: If you add a new heading later, or want to remove one you will need to update the table of contents to reflect the changes you have made in your document.  To do this:

  1. Right-Click on the Table of Contents.
  2. Select Update Field.