

It has to have a Heading style so that Word can tell it to be added to the Table of Contents. In your document, apply heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on) to the text that you want to appear in the table of contents. So first you will need to add for newly created document or change for an existing document the style for each place you want the Title to appear in a chapter in your Table of Contents. In Word, we will insert an automatic table of contents, which relies on heading styles to automatically populate and update the table of contents. A Table of Contents can also be a quick way for users to maneuver around in the document when saved as a PDF as the user can click on the chapter and get to it quickly, for it becomes a link.

1 Microsoft Word 2011: Create a Table of Contents Creating a Table of Contents for a document can be updated quickly any time you need to add or remove details for it will update page numbers for you.
