In an MS Word document that has a Table of Contents, is there a way to click on one of the items?

Question

in the Table of Contents (e.g., Chapter 1) and then have the document go directly to the page where Chapter 1 starts? If so, please let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, in Word 2003 you can do this. I assume the same in Word 2007. Just open your document and click View, Web Layout. When you look at the table of contents in this view, you should see the chapter titles all in blue (the page numbers disappear in this view). By doing this, Word automatically hyperlinks the titles and the page numbers. Then, go back to Print Layout View (View, Print Layout). Put your cursor on Chapter 1 in the table of contents. You'll see a little yellow box come up telling you to press CTRL and then click to follow the link. That's your hyperlink and it will then take you directly to Chapter 1.



If the above doesn't work, click Insert, Reference, Index & Tables, Table of Contents tab. Then checkmark "Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers", click OK. Also, checkmark "right align page numbers". Now, go back and do the above. Both your titles and page numbers should have links.



If you want other people to be able to read your document in this way, you need to save it in Web Layout View.

Answer 2

Clicking on any line in a Word Table of Contents (the kind built by Word, not one built by hand) should take you to the item unless CTRL/Click is set up as the link-activator instead.



Hope that helps.

Answer 3

It depends on how you have your document setup. If it with navigation then you can. The easiest way is the press Ctrl + F (press together) then a textbox will appear and enter chapter 1 inside it and press find. It will find it for you.