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How Do I Generate the Table of Contents For A Manual Using Microsoft Word?

When you export a manual to Word you will need to open the resulting file in a word processing program in order to generate the table of contents. This lesson will show you how to do this for Microsoft Word. This lesson uses Microsoft Word 2008 specifically.

Open Manual DOCX File

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Locate The Table of Contents

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Locate the Table of Contents section in the document. By default this will be on the second page.

Click Inside of Table of Contents

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Click inside the table of contents area (1) in order to active the Table of Contents controls (2).

Update Table...

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Click the arrow next to Table of Contents and select Update Table... from the menu.

The Table of Contents is Generated

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You can now save the document.

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