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How To: Create a Clickable Table of Contents
(TOC)
Creating Clickable Table of Content for
Word (PC)
1.
First page should
be a blank page to insert Table of
Content
2.
Highlight 1
st
section heading (should be consistent with Sectio
n 1, Section 2, etc.)
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3.
Under Styles
at the top
(
when you are
on the Home
window in Word), click on Heading 1 (d
o this for
each section heading
. If subheadings,
click on Heading 2 for the subheading, t
hough shoul
d restrict
to only one subheading to make it easie
r)
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4.
After all sections have been designated with a Heading style, Go b
ack up to first (blank) page
5.
Click on the
References window in
Word
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6.
Click on Table of Content (on the far left) and
select the Automatic Table 2 sele
ction
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7.
You should now
be able to click on the individual
TOC sections (Ct
rl+click)
8.
To see the
navigational window pane o
n the left, click on View and then click on Navigational Pa
ne
–
you can then
click on items
in the Navigational
Pane t
o move through the document
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Creating Clickable Table of Content for Word (MAC)
First page should
be a blank page to insert Table of
Contents
Highlight 1
st
section heading (should be consis
tent with Section 1, Section 2, etc.)
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Under Styles
at the top
, click on Heading 1 (do this fo
r
each section heading
. If subheadings,
click on
Heading 2 for subheading, though shoul
d restrict to only one subheading to ma
ke it easier)
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After all sections have been designated with a Heading style, Go b
ack up to first (blank) page
Click on REFERENCES
at the top
, then s
elect Table of Contents
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Click on Classic on the left and then
select OK
You should now
be able to click on
each section in the TOC in the first page
to take you to the individual
sections. You may have to use (Co
mmand+click) on the table first to enable this.
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To see the
navigational window on the
left, click on View then Show/Hide then Navigation
Panes and
then click on
Show Navigation Pane
. This will allow yo
u to click to individual sections.
You can keep as a Word doc or Save as PD
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