How do I set up a table of contents, which can be automatically updated

Dear Caroline

Thank you for attending Word Intermediate Course.

The reason why Table Of Contents cannot be updated automatically is because once you have created the table of contents you may be editing data such as inserting more text or inserting new page breaks or even change the names of the heading that table of content is using.

Unfortunately Word cannot keep a track of all of these as you go along. Therefore, you have to let Word know that you have made changes and you want it to update those changes. The quickest possible way to do this is to click anywhere inside the Table of Contents that you have created and press the F9 key on the keyboard. You can also right-click anywhere inside the Table of contents and choose update field.

The message will ask you if you want to update the page Numbers only or the entire table. It is best to choose Entire table in case you amended any text in the heading that table of Content uses along with the page Numbers.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to answer that!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003