Everything is good to go here, so I'll click "OK." Back in the "Table of Contents" dialogue box, I could make changes to other options here, but everything's okay, so I'll just click "OK." Word creates a Table of Contents and inserts it into the document. So I'm not even going to cover it in this course. It's time consuming, and very easy to mess up. Although this is doable, I don't recommend it. I want to point out that there is another way to create a Table of Contents, and that's with tags, "Table of Contents Entries." If you use that feature, you'd have to first to tag all the text's Table of Contents entries, and then in this dialogue, you would turn on this checkbox. You might want to scroll down in this list to make sure there's no surprises down there, anything else that might be turned on or identified. And then I can remove this two and three. Then I can enter a two and a three beside A-head and B-head. If my document was inconsistently formatted and used Heading 1 in addition to Chapter Name, I could leave a one in that box, but it doesn't, so I'll remove it. So the Chapter Name is level one, so I'll type a one in here.
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We need to enter the level numbers in the boxes to the right of each of those style names. We're going to use Chapter Name, A-head and B-head.
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Right now Word thinks you're going to use Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3, but we're not. Click "Options." The "Table of Contents Options" dialogue box lets you match up document styles with Table of Contents or TOC levels. We need to tell Word which styles correspond to which Table of Contents heading levels. Then I'll click "References," "Table of Contents," and "Custom Table of Contents." This is the same dialogue box we saw in the previous video, but it's not what we want. I want it on the first page right under the author name, so I'll click in this empty paragraph right here. The first thing I need to do is position the insertion point where I want the Table of Contents to appear. I want to create a Table of Contents based on these styles. You can see these style names up in here in the "Styles" area. It's a bunch of gibberish, 14 pages of it in fact, and it makes use of styles to format chapter names, A-heads for main headings, and B-heads for subheadings. The sample document I have open is called, "Book of Ipsum," and you can find it in the Chapter Seven folder. Then it makes a tiny bit more work for you. There's nothing wrong with that until it's time to generate a Table of Contents.
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Some people create documents and make their own styles as they go along. Okay I get it, not everyone uses Word's outlining feature or built-in heading styles to create their documents.