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You can now create a table of contents in your documents to help organize your content and allow easy navigation through the doc. To insert a table of contents in your doc, follow the directions below:

  1. Add headings to your document by clicking Format > Paragraph styles in the menu bar, then selecting your preferred heading.
  2. If you want to edit/change the text of the table of contents, edit the headings in the document body rather than in the table of contents box because once you update the table of contents (by clicking on 'Update' in the menu that pops up on the top right of the table of contents), manual edits to the table of contents box will be cleared.

  3. To insert a table of contents for this document, click Table of contents from the Insert menu. A screen will pop up where you can choose which style table of contents you'd like. Note that the style will print differently (i.e with page numbers) than how it shows up on screen.
  4. The table of contents will appear wherever you have your cursor placed, so make sure you place your cursor where you want the table of contents to appear. If you need to move the table of contents, click the table and choose remove and then re-insert it wherever you desire.
  5. You can continue to add headings to your doc, or change current headings. However, if you'd like a change to become part of the table of contents, you'll have to click the table and choose Update now from the menu that pops up on the right of the table of contents.
  6. If you'd like to change the style of your table of contents, click on the table of contents and choose Properties from the the menu that pops up on the top right of the table of contents.
  7. Once you have your table of contents in place, it will link to the titled sections of your docs that use the heading styles (see #1 above). Just click once on the link in the table of contents and then click again on the link in the Go to link box.
*Please note that if you make manual edits to the table of contents, they will not be preserved the next time you update the table of contents. Please make these edits within the body of the document and not the actual table of contents.

We'd love to learn how you're using this feature. You can now show off your finished presentation by editing our knol (a knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic).
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