Microsoft Word Lesson (MWL07) How to Create Table of Contents

Dear Student so far we have learnt much about Microsoft Word.  Now we will learn about how to create

  1.Table of contents, 

2. Table of Figures and 

3. Table of Table

Table of content is a list of topics in a book or report etc. which shows page numbers of each topic as illustrated in below picture.

To create a table of content, first create topics of the book. For example Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 so on. 

Select each chapter separately and go to home and select heading 1 for each chapter. the chapter color will be change to blue. make more chapter and sub chapter for making table of contents.

Then go to Reference Tab and  select table of contents and select your style for table of contents. It will look like as shown below:

Same is the procedure for creating table of figures.

when you insert a figure or picture in Word file you have to insert a caption for that figure. for example we insert a picture as shown below. Go to Reference Tab, point to Insert caption, in caption menu dialogue box select you name for picture (e.g. Figure, picture or table) and numbering format and ok.