making a table of contents in microsoft word?

Question

ok i know that they have some automatic way of doing a table of contents in microsoft word but i cant figure it out and i dont want to. i just want to make it so the the right and the left side of my table of contents align. for example

1.0 Executive Summary.......................................8
1.1 Fact Sheet......................................................9


I want the 1.0 and the 1.1 to line up straight and the 8 and 9 to line up straight (and then a whole lot more with the same idea). I can get either all the page numbers (8,9, etc) to line up or all the 1.0, 1.1... to line up but i cant get them both to be in straight lines. help please! i am trying to do the table of contents for my 97 page business plan for class.


so the numbers arent showing up but at the end of all the periods there should be numbers that need to line up!!

Answer 1

You obviously have the basics of TOCs down, so I'll try to give you just the part you need. I assume you have a version of Word between 97 and 2003.



1. If you already have a Table of Contents, right-click in it and select Edit Field from the popup menu.

2. If you don't have a TOC yet, position the cursor where you want it and click the Insert->Field menu item.

3. In either case, in the Edit dialog box scroll down to and select TOC.

4. Click the Table of Contents button.

5. Click the Show Page Numbers checkbox.

6. Check the Right Align Page Numbers check box. NOTE: Some TOC formats don't allow this.

7. If you want the ..... between the entry and the page number, click in the Tab Leader list box and select a style.

8. OK out of everything.



That should do it.

Answer 2

I won't give you the step by step because you can get that yourself by going to the help index and look it up. If you are not comfortable with learning this way and don't have much time, it will be easier to do it manually. Otherwise, if your headings that you want listed in the TOC are easy to identify you'll mark each paragraph with a field code and then go to the front of the document and do Insert Table of Contents. If your document is very long and you have the headings already done in a certain style you can generate a TOC by saying which style should be which level. The help feature will explain this much better than we can here - not knowing whether or not you know what a field code is, or tabbed leader (dots that go from the end of the listing to the page numbers), whether you want complex multi-level TOC or just a simple one, etc. Once you find the Insert Tables and Indexes window you'll just have to experiment with their choices to get what you want. Usually the default works out fine. Here is some instructions from Word 2000. Field codes: TC (Table of Contents Entry) field { TC "Text" [Switches ] } Defines the text and page numbers for entries in a table of contents and in lists of tables, figures, and similar contents. Insert a TC field immediately before the text you want to include in the contents. To collect the TC field entries into a contents list, use the Index And Tables command (Insert menu). Insert a TOC (Table of Contents) field where you want the contents in the document. The TC field is formatted as hidden text and displays no result in the document. To view this field, click Show/Hide .

Answer 3

If you are lookin for a perfect alignment., place 1.1, 1.2 etc in one column and place the rest of the content in the adjacent column. Also from the toolbar align 1.1 , 1.2 etc to right and your contents to left. I hope that will solve the problem.

Answer 4

if it is microsoft 2000-2003, you must:

- go to the table icon on the top line

- click on it

- click on insert

- then click on table

- then choose number of columns and rows

- then press on okay

- then fix the measurements