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Update When Things Change: Try It

The document discusses how to update a table of contents in Microsoft Word when document content changes. It demonstrates pushing a section to a new page and then updating just the page numbers in the TOC. It also shows applying a Heading 1 style to a paragraph and then updating the entire TOC to include the new heading.

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Update When Things Change: Try It

The document discusses how to update a table of contents in Microsoft Word when document content changes. It demonstrates pushing a section to a new page and then updating just the page numbers in the TOC. It also shows applying a Heading 1 style to a paragraph and then updating the entire TOC to include the new heading.

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Update when things change

The heavy lifting doesn’t stop with creating a TOC. Word is smart enough to keep track of where
things are, so you don’t have to. When things change, just update the TOC.

Try It: Update your TOC.

1. Place your cursor after the paragraph that ends with, “When things change, just update
the TOC” (above), and then hit Ctrl+Enter to push this section onto page 3.

2. Go to your TOC and click anywhere in it. Then click Update Table, and click OK (Update
page numbers only is selected by default).

Word updated the entry for Update when things change from page 2 to page 3.

Use styles for headings


The TOC magic is in the styles that are used to format headings. The heading for this section,
Use styles for headings, might look like a heading, but it doesn’t act like one. It’s formatted in
pieces (font size, underline) instead of being formatted with a style. See how it’s not in the TOC
you added? To add a heading to a TOC, it needs to be formatted with the Heading 1 style.

Try It: Update the style, and then update the TOC.

1. Click in the heading above (Use styles for headings)—be sure to just click, don’t select
anything.

2. On the Home tab, find Styles, and click Heading 1 (keyboard shortcut: Alt+Ctrl+1).

3. Update your TOC like you did before, but this time, select Update entire table (instead
of Update page numbers only) since more than the page numbers changed.

Now Word knows that paragraph is a heading, and includes it in the TOC.

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