How to Create Table of Contents in LibreOffice Writer

 

How to Create Table of Contents in LibreOffice Writer

 

 

This beginner’s guide would help you to add basic Table of Contents in Writer document.

Table of Contents is a necessary index which is needed for every user when dealing with long documents, book drafts etc. Table of content is an index which gives user easy access to any location in the document.

In this guide, we will try to create a simple table of contents (TOC) with 3 headings and some sub-headings.

Steps to Add Table of Contents

§  Open the document where you want to add table of contents. Consider below document for example.

• You have to add the headings and subheadings with style to make them appear in the table of contents.
• Select the heading which would be an item in your index content. Then from the toolbar select Heading 1
• epeat the steps for all top level headings.
• For subheading, select the corresponding text and apply style Heading 2.
• Repeat the steps for all top level headings.
• Once you have applied all the heading styles, put the cursor at the beginning of the document to create table of contents.
• From menu, select Insert > Table of contents and Index > Table of contents, Index or Bibliography.
• In the next window, Press OK.
• You can now see the table of contents added in the beginning of your document. You can CTRL+Click to follow the sections/headings from the table of contents.

Numbered List in the Table of Contents

It is often wise to add numbered list to table of contents to properly explain the hierarchy. For example –

his is how you can do it.

§  Select the texts where you have added Headings. From the toolbar, select Numbered Lists. Choose your favourite numbered list.

• Now, click on a subheading (having style heading 2) and select Numbered List again from the toolbar. You can see the subheading is labeled with dot and a sublist is created.
• This way, you can keep repeating the steps for all the headings, subheadings.

Add New Headings in Table of Contents

To add new headings, you can just apply the Heading 1 or Heading 2 etc to any text and it would appear in the table of contents. If you want the headings to be numbered list, you can still apply the same as well.

Update or Modify an existing Table of contents

§  Once new headings are added, to update the table of contents follow below steps.

§  Right click on top of the table of contents and click Update Index.

• The entire table of content would be updated with the headings from the entire document.
• If you would like to edit the table of contents, its styles, click on the Edit index in the right click context menu.
• To delete the table of contents, click on the Delete Index.

Conclusion

This is the easy way to apply table of contents in a Writer document.