CREATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS IN

MICROSOFT WORD 2003

A table of contents (TOC) consists of a list of the headings in a document, which can be
inserted in a specific location. This guide explains how to create a table of contents
formed from all the headings as they appear in your document, provided each heading
has been formatted with a "style" - see "Creating Heading Styles" later in this document.
SELECTING A TABLE OF CONTENTS FORMAT
1. Position the cursor in your document where the table of contents is to be placed.
2. Click on the Insert menu, select Reference, followed by Index and Tables.
3. In the Index and Tables box,
ensure the Table of Contents
tab is selected, and then click on
a suitable design from the
Formats: drop down list.
Observe the results in the
preview window(s).
4. If desired, adjust the page
number settings, the Tab leader
style, and the number of TOC
levels to display.
5. Click on OK.
After a few moments, the table of contents will appear in the document.
If a field code is displayed instead of the table of contents,
click on the Tools menu and choose Options. Select the
{ TOC \O "1-3" \H.\Z }
View tab and clear the Field Codes box.

UPDATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS

If any alterations are made to the document after the table of contents has been created,
(eg modified headings, or different page numbers), it must be updated to reflect the
changes.
Note: Any formatting or additional text previously added to the table of contents will be
lost in the update.
1. Click the mouse to the left of the table of contents to select it, and then press the F9
key (or click on the right mouse button and choose Update
Field from the sub-menu).
2. In the Update Table of Contents box, choose whether to
update only the page numbers, or the entire table.

DELETING A TABLE OF CONTENTS

Click the mouse to the left of the TOC to select the contents and press the Delete key.

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CREATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR LARGE DOCUMENTS
When creating a table of contents from multiple documents you will need to manually
adjust the starting page number in each document to ensure the pages are correctly
sequenced. It is also advisable to have all the files in the same directory.
1. Create the document in as many files as necessary.
2. Create a new file for the table of contents, preferably in the same directory.
3. From the Insert menu, choose Field...
4. Scroll down the Field names: list and
select RD.
5. In the Filename or URL: box, type in the
path and name of the first file, eg:
a:\week1\chapter1\test1.doc
6. Click on OK. A field code similar to:
{ RD a:\\week1\\chapter1\\test1.doc }
will be displayed in the document. (If the
field code does not appear, click on the
Show/Hide button on the toolbar ).
Note that Word adds additional backslashes between the paths and, if any part of the
location includes spaces, it will also enclose the whole path in quotation marks: eg
{ RD "a:\\week 1\\chapter1\\test.doc" }
7. Repeat steps 3 6 for all the files which make up the main document, making sure
you insert the fields in the correct order.
(You should end up with a list of field codes
similar to those shown opposite).
8. Now follow the instructions for setting up a table
of contents at the beginning of this document.

CREATING HEADING STYLES

The easiest way to apply a heading style is from the Styles
and Formatting task pane.

1. On the formatting toolbar click on the Styles and

Formatting button to display the task pane.
2. In your document, select each heading in turn, and then
click on a heading style under Pick formatting to apply.
(These are built in styles attached to the current Word
template.)
If you are unsure as to whether a style is already applied to a
heading, click inside the heading and observe the Formatting
of selected text box in the task pane.
More information on creating styles can be found in the
document: "Long Document and Report Writing".
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Creating Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word

OK, Everyone knows about hyperlinks on a web page, but in a Word document? Yes. In fact
hyperlinks can be created in all Microsoft Office applications; PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

Definition - A hyperlink includes the path information to another object. The object can be a target
on the same document, a file on the same computer, or a uniform resource locator giving the
location of a web page halfway around the world. The process is exactly the same in all cases. Some
point on the document is turned into an active spot which includes the path information.

For this activity you will download two documents and either save them to your desktop or to a
floppy. Do not just open the documents, save them first. Saving is required in order to establish a
hyper link. An unsaved document exists as a temporary file. You want to be able to embed the path
information into a hyperlink.

Document 1 - The poem Desiderata. You will embed three types of hyperlinks in this
document; a link to a bookmark which you place in the document, a link to open another
document on your desktop (Document 2), and a link to the place on the Internet where this
copy of the poem was found.
Document 2 - A self congratulatory document celebrating the fact that you opened a document by using a hyperlink that you created.

Download the two documents, save them to your desktop or floppy, and open Desiderata. You are ready for step 1.

Create a Hyperlink to a Bookmark

Step 1 - Open Desiderata. and find the sentence "But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings."

Step 2 - Place your cursor to the left of the beginning of that line. Actually, you can place your cursor anywhere in that statement, the
hyperlink will work just as well.

Step 3 - Move your cursor to the Insert menu, click once and slide down to Bookmark. Click one time.

Step 4 - Using the Bookmark dialog box

Enter a name for the bookmark. The bookmark will go wherever your cursor is in the document. If you have moved the
cursor since step 2, click Cancel and go back to step 2. I used dark at the name for my bookmark.
My bookmark will be hidden, that is the default choice. Deselect that check mark is you want the bookmark to show.
Click on Add and the bookmark it put in place.
Save the document. If you do not, Word will not know that there is a bookmark in the document.

Step 5 - Making a hyperlink to the bookmark

1. At the top of the document, put your cursor to the right of the parenthesis mark below the title and press the Enter/Return
key one time
2. Type the phrase "good advice."
3. Highlight the phrase you just typed.
4. Move your cursor to the Insert menu, click one time and scroll down to Hyperlink, click one time.

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1. Select Place in this Document. A list of all of the bookmarks in the current document will be displayed. Do not be
dismayed, there is only one bookmark, the one you just made.

The dialog box above shows the bookmarks that had been added in the document. Select the bookmark you just made
in the steps above then click OK and the words good advice are now a hyperlink. Notice in the image below that
when the cursor is positioned over the hyperlink it changes to a hand and the name of the bookmark appears.

Task : (1) Create a bookmark on the Desiderata. document at the bold paragraph at the bottom of the document that begins "From the
Alt.Usage.English FAQ..." (2) Save the document (3) Go to the top of the Desiderata. document and make the phrase "See information
regarding the author" a hyperlink to the bold paragraph at the bottom.

Create a Hyperlink to a document on your computer

Step 1 - Go to the bottom of the Desiderata. document and highlight the phrase, I did a good job!

Step 2 - Go to the Insert menu and select Hyperlink.

Step 3 - This time when the Insert Hyperlink dialog box opens select Existing File or Web Page, then select File on the right side of the
dialog box. If you need to review what the window looks like, select this link. When you are finished click on the Back button to come back
here.

Step 4 - A Link to File dialog box opens which will allow you to browse to find the file. From wherever you saved the file, select the
hooray4me file then select the OK button, then select OK in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box. If you saved the documents to your floppy you
must change the Look in: location at the top of this dialog box.

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Step 5 - Try the link that you just made. After you see the message close hooray4me to go back to Desiderata. You have one more hyperlink
to create.

Create a Hyperlink to a web site

Step 1 - Go to the bottom of Desiderata. and highlight the URL. Be careful to get only the URL and not any space before or after it. A
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) begins with http and ends with html. After you are sure you have only the URL highlighted, go to the Edit
menu and select Copy.

Step 2 - Leave the URL highlighted. We are going to make it into a link.

Step 3 - With the URL highlighted move your cursor to the Insert menu and select Hyperlink.

Step 4 - When the Insert Hyperlink window opens you will find the URL you copied has been placed into the Type the file or Web page
name: box. Look carefully. Make sure that the first character is an h and not a colon or a space.

Step 5 - Select OK and try your hyperlink.

Describe the background of the web page where the poem Desiderata is located.
a flower covered hill a gray box on a pink background puffy white clouds

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