Include custom titles and headings in your TOC

1. Include custom titles and headings in your TOC In the first lesson you learned how to customize the look of your automatic TOC entries. Suppose you’ve inherited a document that uses Word’s predefined Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 styles as well as custom-styled headings. Fortunately, building a TOC that includes both kinds of headings, predefined and custom, is not hard. In fact, it takes just a couple of clicks. Table of Contents II: Customize your TOC

2. Identify the heading styles used in the document First, find out what styles are used for the custom titles and headings in the document. Word does not include these custom styles in the TOC — you must set them up manually. To view the styles, click the Styles Dialog Box Launcher on the Home tab. Then click in the document in the heading that you want to identify. Note the style name in the Styles box so that you can find it in the Table of Contents dialog box in the next step. Table of Contents II: Customize your TOC

3. Include the custom heading styles in your TOC After identifying the styles used in a document, you set up the TOC to collect those custom headings along with Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. On the References tab, click Table of Contents, click Insert Table of Contents, and then click Options. Under Available styles, find the name of the style that was used for the chapter titles or headings. Next to each style, type a number from 1 to 9 to indicate the level that you want the custom style to appear as. Table of Contents II: Customize your TOC