Using WORD to automatically generate a directory is not only quick, but also convenient when reading and searching the directory. Just hold down Ctrl and click a chapter in the table of contents, and you will jump directly to the page. More importantly, it is convenient for later modification, because the finished article will inevitably be modified, added or deleted many times. If you manually label the table of contents, all the page numbers in the middle and behind will be changed, which is a headache. If you use WORD to automatically generate the table of contents, you can modify the content of the article at will, and finally update the table of contents and re-correspond the table of contents to the corresponding page number.

WORD automatic directory generation tutorial

If the title format in the article is

Section 1 ... Title (1 level)

1. 1 ... Subtitle (Level 2)

Subtitle under 1. 1. 1- ... Subtitle (Level 3)

……

Section N ... Title (1 level)

No. 1 ... Subtitle (Level 2)

N. 1. 1- ... subtitles (level 3)

Automatically generate article directory operation:

First, set the title format.

1. Select all the first-level titles in the article;

2. At the left end of the Format toolbar, click "Title 1" in the Style list.

Imitate steps 1 and 2, and set the format of secondary and tertiary headers as header 2 and header 3.

Second, automatically generate the directory.

1. Position the cursor to the left of the first line of the article on page 1 (the table of contents should be in front of the article);

2. Execute the menu command "Insert/Reference/Index and Directory" to open the "Index Directory" dialog box;

3. Click the "Contents" tab in the dialog box, make relevant settings, and then click "OK" to automatically generate the article contents.

Friendly reminder:

The coding of directory page numbers should be different from the main page numbers.

Position the cursor at the end of the table of contents page, perform "Insert/Delimiter/Next Page/OK" operation, and insert a page break between the table of contents and the text;

Execute the View/Header and Footer command, position the cursor at the footer of the first page of the text, and click the Link to Previous Page button on the Header and Footer toolbar to link the footer of the text with the footer of the table of contents.

Execute the Insert/Page Number command, select the page number format in Format, select the starting page number as 1, and click OK.

At this point, the page number of the text is inserted.

If the table of contents is multi-page, you can choose a different page number format when inserting page numbers. Of course, if the table of contents has only one page, you don't need to insert a page number.