How to Make a Table of Contents in Word



Learn how to add a table of contents into your document in Microsoft Word.

First, I show you how to add headings to your document. Text that uses a heading is automatically included as part of a table of contents. Once headings are created, we click into the References tab and insert a table of contents. I also show you how to update the page numbers and update the table of contents if you make any changes to it.

As full-disclosure, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.

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This Post Has 42 Comments

  1. Awesome, my Masters thesis looks so much better with page numbers all in a line, and there are hyperlinks to pages, bravo!

  2. Sal Ferrer

    Awesome! You're the man! Way better than the Microsoft tutorial

  3. melissa kelly

    fantastic- literally the easiest to follow along thank you!!!

  4. Chris Lane

    Great job, thank you!! I miss living in Oak Harbor! 😫

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  6. The Dhruvs

    Love all your work Kevin! You just know how to simplify steps. Definitely very useful 👍👍👍

  7. Barry Bazzell

    Kevin, thank you. My niece also works for your employer in Seattle. Question: I don't want Word Table of Contents (TOC) to capture the pages preceeding a page with my Abstract, which is p. 3 in my project. How do I start the TOC with p. 3?

  8. Jair Rivera

    Excellent video Kevin. Easy to follow and understand. Thank you much.

  9. Eileen Williams

    I Lived in Seattle and it rains all the time. LOL Thank you for clear presentation.

  10. Peter Pk

    Thanks. clear and to the point. easy to understand.

  11. Piotr Jurkiewicz

    Well: I created new styles. => I deleated old ones so they don't mess => I assign new styles to according texts => now, I failed to do a table of contents

  12. Brandon Wing

    Much appreciated as always, Kevin. Keep the great content coming!

  13. Ramihypo Gamer

    our teacher took him 1 week to explain this for us and now your telling me there is a guy his name is kevin explained everything better than my teacher in just 8 mintus just wow bro u earned my sub

  14. Behrooz Alavi

    Hey Martyn
    Thanks for showing how to make table of contents in word doc
    I am also interested in how to use Formulae in the excel
    Do you have any video on this topic?

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  16. Michele Goodman

    Do you have a similar tutorial for how to make a table of contents in Google Docs?

  17. GeMelle Fowler

    Kevin, you're a life-saver. This was by far the most easily understood video that I've seen regarding inserting a table of contents.

  18. Anshul Kumar

    Thank you for the video. This video helped me to complete my project documentation work. 🙂👍

  19. Sharelle F

    thanks for this. I was turning in a 20-page paper and needed this! Not only did you get to the point, it was easy to follow!! 🙂

  20. Munna K

    Can I know, how do i LOCK the first page that has the table of contents! I have seen this in PDFs like the first page with ToC is permanently on the LEFT side of th escreen. That's invaluable to me. I don't have to keep scrolling to the first page to find the ToC. PLS HELP!!!

  21. Rupali

    I have to do it for my assignment….thanks alot

  22. lynnhtut thant

    No more typing that manually thanks a million bro like I have to type that whole thing and is hard

  23. Astute Bellas

    Great video Kevin. I didn't use Word for my TOC bc I didn't know how to create one. Your explanation was great and if I had watched your video prior to creating my TOC in Word, I would have used Word. Since I have already created my TOC manually, how do I insert …… 3(page 3) in my TOC. BTW, I use a Mac. Thank you so much.

  24. Adrienne Dowden

    This was awesome! I was having a hard time doing this and now I can do it! Thank you!

  25. Diego Ljubisa

    what if i dont want that font and blue color on the titles?????

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