You can add a table of contents in Word to make your document look more professional and well-developed.

Word's table of contents, by default, has no formatting. You can add formatting directly, but you'll have to reapply it every time you update the table. Instead, learn how to modify the table's ...

It's easy to add page numbers, headers, footers, title pages and a table of contents to your Word documents. You just have to know where to look.

Preparing headers Before you insert the table of contents, you will need to apply heading styles to the pages on your document, which will then be used by Word to formulate the table itself.