WORD generally uses the title or outline level to create a table of contents, which is very helpful for those who write papers in Word. Therefore, before creating a table of contents, you should ensure that the built-in heading styles (heading 1 to heading 9) have been applied to the headings to be displayed in the table of contents. You can also apply styles that include outline levels or custom styles. If the structure and performance of the document are good, it will be very fast and easy to create a qualified directory.
Advantages: Using WORD to automatically generate the table of contents according to the chapters of the article is not only fast, but also convenient for reading and searching the table of contents. Just hold down Ctrl and click a chapter in the table of contents to jump directly to the page. More importantly, it is convenient for later revision, because the finished article will inevitably be revised, added or deleted many times. If you label the table of contents by hand, it will be a headache to change the contents in the middle and the page numbers at the back. The table of contents that should be generated automatically, you can modify the content of the article at will, and finally update the table of contents to re-correspond the table of contents to the corresponding page number.
Method 1: Create a directory using the outline level.
In addition to applying the title style, assigning an outline level to a title can also quickly create a table of contents. The steps are as follows:
1. Execute View → Toolbar → Outline, and display the outline toolbar.
2. Place the insertion point on the first title to be displayed in the table of contents.
3. On the Outline toolbar, click to open the Outline Level drop-down box and select an outline level for this title.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each title you want to include in the table of contents.
Tip: Switch to outline view to specify outline level, and you can see the change process very intuitively.
5. Place the insertion point where you want to insert the directory.
6. Perform Insert → Reference → Index and Directory → Directory.
7. Click the Options button to deselect Style, and then click OK to return to the Index and Table of Contents dialog box.
Note: The main reason for canceling the "Style" selection here is to let you know the process of creating a directory simply using the outline level. In practical application, if the title style is applied to the title in the main text, then the title style (title 1-title 9) is in one-to-one correspondence with the outline level (1-9). For example, if you apply Title 2 to a title, even if you don't specify an outline level, its outline level will automatically become Level 2. If the table of contents level is set for other styles (such as custom styles), the outline level check box below will be automatically cleared and grayed out.
8. Set the number of display levels. This example specifies four outline levels, but only the first three levels are displayed in the table of contents.
9. Click OK to insert the directory in the specified location.
Method 2: Create a directory by using the title.
1. 1. Create a directory according to the title style.
Steps: (The following contents are operated in WORD2003. Other versions of WORD are slightly different, but they are all similar. )
1. Select [Style and Format] in [Format].
2. The column "Style Format" appears on the right, mainly using the titles 1, 2 and 3. Title 1, title 2 and title 3 are applied to the titles of all chapters in the main text respectively. For example, we need to use the title 1 to define "Chapter 1 Introduction to Refrigeration". And "1. 1 development history of refrigeration technology" is defined by heading 2. If there is 1. 1. 1 ×××, it is defined by heading 3.
3. Of course, the attributes of title 1, title 2 and title 3 (such as font size, center, bold, etc. ) you can modify it yourself. Modification method: right-click "Title 1" and select "Modify" to open a menu of modification, which you can modify according to your own requirements.
4. Don't use the title 1, 2, 3 to define each chapter in the text. It is very convenient to define, just point the cursor to "Chapter 1 Introduction to Refrigeration" and click the title 1 on the right with the left mouse button. Similarly, define1.1with headings 2 and 3; 1. 1. 1; By analogy, the second and third chapters are also defined in this way until the end of the full text.
When everything is defined, we can generate the directory. Move the cursor to the blank position where you want to insert the directory at the beginning of the article, and select [Insert]-[Reference]-[Index and Directory].
6. Select the second tab [Contents], and then click OK in the lower right corner.
The above picture is an automatically generated directory.
7. When you modify the content of the article again, you need to update the table of contents by right-clicking the table of contents area and selecting [Update Field].
8. After selecting [Update Domain], the box shown above will appear. Select the second "Update entire directory" button to confirm. It doesn't matter.
1.2, create a directory from other styles.
For example, if you want to create a table of contents from different styles of documents, you don't need to create a table of contents according to the style of heading 1 to heading 9, but create a table of contents according to the custom style of heading 1 to heading 3, as shown below:
(1) Move the cursor to the location where you want to insert the directory.
(2) Open the dialog box, and then click the Options button to pop up the Directory Options dialog box.
(3) Find the style used by the title in the list box of valid styles, and then specify the level of the title in the directory level text box. If you don't want to use styles, delete the number in the directory level text box. For example, users can delete the numbers after the titles 1, 2 and 3 in the directory level.
(4) Click OK to return to the Index and Directory dialog box.
(5) Select the appropriate option in the Index and Table of Contents dialog box, and then click OK.
Second, create a chart directory.
Chart table of contents is also a common table of contents, which can list descriptions and page numbers of pictures, charts, graphs, slides or other illustrations. When creating a table of figures, users can arrange the table of figures according to their captions or custom table labels, refer to the page order, and finally display the table of figures in the document.
Use headings to organize the table of contents, as follows:
(1) Make sure that the pictures, tables and charts in the document to be cataloged have titles.
(2) Move the cursor to the place where you want to insert the chart directory.
(3) Click the Index and Table of Contents menu item in [Reference] on the Insert menu, and select the Chart Table of Contents tab in the Index and Table of Contents dialog box.
(4) In the caption label drop-down list box, select the caption of the directory to be created, such as charts, formulas and tables.
(5) Select a directory format in the format drop-down list box. Other options are the same as creating a universal directory. Click OK after confirmation.
After checking the chart table of contents, when you move the mouse to the table of contents, the mouse pointer will change into a hand shape, and click the left mouse button to jump to the corresponding position.
It is very convenient to use captions to create a table of contents, but sometimes the annotations in a document are typed by users themselves, not added by the caption function of Word. At this point, you need to use a custom style to create a chart table of contents, as shown below:
(1) Open the Index and Table of Contents dialog box and select the Table of Contents tab.
(2) Click the Options button to pop up the Chart Directory Options dialog box.
(3) Select the style check box, select the name of the style used for chart labels in the drop-down list box on the right, and then click OK.
(4) Select an option in the Index and Catalog dialog box, and then click OK.
Third, create a reference list.
Citation catalogs are similar to other catalogs, and different citation catalogs can be created according to different citation types. Before creating a reference table, you should ensure that there are corresponding references in the document. The operation steps of creating a citation catalogue are as follows:
(1) Move the cursor to the position where you want to insert the quotation.
(2) Click the Index and Directory menu item in [Citation] in the Insert menu, and select the Citation Directory tab in the pop-up Citation and Directory dialog box.
(3) Select the corresponding reference category in the category. Please note that this category should be a citation type that has been created in the citation.
(4) The created citation catalog also has corresponding built-in citation catalog styles that can be applied. If you want to change it, you can click the Change button.
(5) If the page number of the citation exceeds 5 pages, you can select the "Use everywhere" check box, which can avoid the inconvenience caused to users by too many pages.
(6) If the quotation is too long, you can choose to keep the original quotation format.
(7) After selecting the tabulation leader and format of the directory, click OK.
If you want to mark citations to create a suitable citation directory, you can do it as follows:
(1) Select the citation to mark.
(2) Open the [Citation Directory] dialog box, and click the Mark Citation button to pop up the Mark Citation dialog box.
(3) Select the appropriate type in the category drop-down list box.
(4) Click the Mark button to mark the currently selected text. If you click the Mark All button, the selected text that exists in the document will be marked.
(5) If you want to mark other references, do not close the Mark References dialog box, and directly select the references to be marked in the document.
(6) Return to the Mark Citation dialog box, the selected citation will appear below the selected citation, and then click Mark.
(7) If you want to modify an existing category, you can click the Category button.
(8) Select the category to be modified, enter the text to be replaced in the Replace with the following text box, and then click the Replace button.
(9) Click OK after completion to return to the marked quotation dialog box. Click the close button.
Fourth, update the catalogue.
The directory created by Word is based on the content of the document. If the document content changes, such as page number or title, you need to update the table of contents to make it consistent with the document content. It is best not to modify the directory directly, which will easily lead to inconsistency between the directory and the document content.
After creating a directory, if you want to change the format of the directory or display the title, you can create the directory again and re-select the format and display level. After the operation, a dialog box will pop up asking whether to replace the original directory. Select Yes to replace the original directory.
If you just want to update the data in the directory to adapt to the changes in the document, instead of changing the format of the directory and other items, you can right-click the directory and click the Update Domain menu item in the pop-up shortcut menu. Users can also select a directory and press F9 to update the domain.
Method 3
The catalogue is made in three steps.
1) Modify the format of the heading style.
Usually, the title style built into Word does not meet the requirements of the paper format and needs to be modified manually. Click Format | Styles on the menu bar, select All Styles from the list drop-down box, click the corresponding heading style, and then click Change. Modifiable contents include font, paragraph, tab stop, number, etc. The format of the title 1-3 is modified according to the requirements of the paper format.
2) Apply the corresponding format to the title paragraph of each chapter.
The title of the chapter is "Title 1", the title of the section is "Title 2" and the title of the third level is "Title 3". Another advantage of using styles to format titles is that it is very convenient to change the title format. If you want to change the font size of all the first-level titles to small three, you only need to change the format setting of the "title 1" style and then update it automatically. The font size of all chapters will be changed to small three, which is troublesome and easy to make mistakes without manual modification. For information about how to apply styles and automatically update styles, see Word Help.
3) extract the directory
According to the requirements of the paper format, the table of contents is placed in front of the text. Insert a new page before the text (insert a page break before the title of the first chapter), move the cursor to the beginning of the new page, add the word "table of contents" and set the format. For a new paragraph, select Insert | Index and Table of Contents in the menu bar, click the Table of Contents tab, and the display level is level 3. Don't change anything else. After confirmation, Word will automatically generate the table of contents. If a chapter title is not in the directory, it must be that the title style is not used or used improperly, and there is something wrong with the directory generation, not Word. Please go to the corresponding chapter to check. After that, if the chapter title changes or the page number changes, just update the table of contents.
Note: After generating the table of contents, sometimes the table of contents text will have gray shading, which is the field shading of Word and will not be printed when printing (if you are willing to waste a piece of paper, you can try to print the table of contents). On the View tab of Tools | Options, you can set how field shading is displayed.
Method 4
1, typesetting the full text in Word;
2. Select the first-level title, then click the "Text" drop-down menu in front of "Font" in the toolbar and select "Title1";
3. At this point, a black dot will appear in front of the line, indicating that the line has been set as a directory item (the black dot in front will not be printed);
4. Set the paragraphs and fonts of this line until you are satisfied;
5. Place the cursor on the directory line just filtered, and then click the format brush on the toolbar to format all the titles in the text that need to be set as first-level titles in a unified format;
6. According to steps 2-5, set the second and third levels in this paper in turn;
7. Place the cursor at the position where the directory needs to be placed in the text, click Insert-Index and Directory in the menu, and make appropriate settings in the directory menu. You can also use the default values without modification and confirm.
8. At this point, the directory will be automatically generated;
9. If you want to modify the font and font size of the directory, you can select the directory to modify it; When choosing, be careful not to click directly on the directory, but put the mouse on the left side of the directory, click when the cursor becomes an empty arrow, and the whole directory will be selected and modified. If you only want to modify a line, put the cursor at the end of the line and drag it forward.
10. If a title in an article changes, you can right-click the changed generation directory and click "Update Domain" in the right-click menu, and the modified location will be automatically modified.