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If you are writing a long document or a book, you may want to create a Table of Contents (TOC) for your document. The easiest way to create a TOC is to use heading levels, as defined by the Word styles. To do this, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Table of Contents tab of the Table of Contents dialog box.
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2014-05-21 10:37:28
Mike Jones
This works only if you created section headers as you created your document. Or perhaps you went back after realizing it was longer than you anticipated and entered them after the fact. No headers, no TOC.
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