{"id":190,"date":"2003-04-20T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/190"},"modified":"2003-04-20T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T10:25:00","slug":"ms-word-creating-table-of-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/ms-word-creating-table-of-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"MS-Word: Creating table of contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>MS-Word: Creating table of contents<\/h3>\n<p>I was quite surprised when my colleague -a programmer- walked up to me and asked me &#8220;how do I create &#8216;this&#8217; kind of a <acronym title=\"table of contents\">TOC?<\/acronym> I told him you have to make headings (H1, H2, H3 etc). &#8220;and?&#8221; He shot back. It was like deja vu for me. I keep explaining this to people once in a while. No, I am not saying it is a major problem. What I am trying to say is that &#8216;creating table of contents is not as easy to perform as say, formatting a paragraph?&#8217;<br \/>\nSequence of Tasks (when I create a TOC):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I apply heading styles to the headings I want in my TOC\n<li>Once I am done with the document, I go to the start of the document (or where I want the TOC) and &#8220;insert>Index and tables>Table of contents&#8221; where I choose the style of my TOC (simple or formal etc) and also the number of heading levels I want in my TOC (only H1, H2 And H3 would give me a 3-level hierarchy).\n<li>The MS-Word help explains this in simple language, in fact that&#8217;s where I learnt how to create TOCs, but a good number of people rely on &#8216;people&#8217; rather on than on &#8216;Help&#8217;; they just call one of their colleagues and ask how to go about a particular task. This could be because it takes lesser time, and reading on the screen is tougher than reading a dead-tree version. That brings the point how many software products ship with a dead-tree version of the Manual?\n<li>Now going back to creating TOCs in Word; I think that it is not a single task and there is an element of time involved in it. I mean you have to create a complete document with appropriate headings first (which is a task in itself call it task 1) and once you&#8217;re done you should go Insert>index and tables>table of contents and so on (call this task 2).\n<li>The time between task1 and task2 could be anywhere between 30 minutes to 30 days (or more?), now that&#8217;s not the problem&#8230; MS-Word help does not explicitly state that it comprises two tasks. A simple statement like &#8216;Creating a table of contents involves two parts 1) Apply headings &#8230; 2) Click Insert>&#8230;  might be helpful&#8230; I am just thinking aloud&#8230; do you think it is a problem? 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