To make very long Word documents readable and clear, it is always advisable to make a table of contents, here are some tricks to do it without problems
A thesis, a long document or a notice. There are countless reasons to learn how to make a Word summary. Fortunately, in the service of Microsoft there is a built-in function to create indexes. But there are a few small tips that are best to follow.
Let’s start with the basics, a table of contents is an initial table of contents with headings that call out to the relevant section and chapter. It is a quick and fast solution to find immediately what we are interested in without scrolling too much. To make an effective summary you need to have some familiarity with Word. If it is the first time we open a document with this program we will have more than one difficulty in making a table of contents, but fortunately in Word almost all actions that can be performed are extremely intuitive.
Creating a summary in Word
To start creating a summary with Word we must first go to the References section and then under the heading Summary. We will have several choices available. Either automatic or manual tables. Obviously the first ones are faster but for those who want to customize their summary and don’t want to limit themselves to having a standard one, the second option is better. A customized summary can also be saved for future use. Before choosing the table of contents, however, the most important thing is to apply a style to the title of the selected paragraph, and to do that just go to the Styles item. From the Summary item after each change to the Styles item we need to click Update Summary to give validity to our changes.
Edit Title Style
When we go to the Styles item and apply the Title font we have a few choices and often these may not satisfy our desired graphic style. We don’t worry about this at first. The table of contents will need clear reference points. But once we have completed the list of headings to be displayed on the summary we can go and change the font, size and color to our liking. The important thing is not to remove the Title style. Otherwise it would no longer be considered as an element for the summary. We can also give a different color to the title and subtitle and by pressing Update to Summary the changes will be shown in this section as well.
Include other parts in the summary
Word by default includes in the summary only the parts indicated as Title, in its variants from 1 to 9. But what if for example we want to include in the summary a graphic or another part of the text? In this case we have to go back to the References section and then to the Table of Contents section. From the drop-down menu we select the item customize table of contents. In the menu that opens click on the heading Options. In the list that pops up we scroll through the list of items recognized as headings, that is, headings 1 through 9. Once this list is finished we can insert our own Style that will be recognized as a heading.