{"id":187,"date":"2017-11-13T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T07:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edunile.net\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:57:49","slug":"easily-format-a-table-of-content-toc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/2017\/11\/13\/easily-format-a-table-of-content-toc\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Format a Table of Content TOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, formatting a MS table of content (TOC) could be a terrible experience. One of the major issues in the current MS TOC is that they are automatically updated every time you attempt to do a slight edit. Unfortunately, there are not many options for editing it without facing the automatic update headache. There are a few steps you can consider in order to easily manage your TOC especially before a deadline finalizing a document or report.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Limit the editing to the page numbers only (right click &#8212; update field &#8212; page numbers only).<\/li>\n<li>? 1. Consider unlinking the TOC to the word document. This will transfer the table into a normal table that you can easily edit. However, you won&#8217;t be able to automatically update the page numbers.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Highlight<\/strong> the entire Table of Contents.<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8220;<kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>Shift<\/kbd>+<kbd>F9\"<\/kbd> (Windows) or or &#8220;<kbd>Cmd<\/kbd>+<kbd>Shift<\/kbd>+<kbd>F9\" for<\/kbd> (Mac) to unlink the field code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>For additional editing of content, I found this great video. It is very simple and to the point. It saved me hours of attempting to make minor changes that were causing major problems in the document I was preparing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKiFort5zLA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, formatting a MS table of content (TOC) could be a terrible experience. One of the major issues in the current MS TOC is that they are automatically updated every time you attempt to do a slight edit. Unfortunately, there are not many options for editing it without facing the automatic update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,371,389],"tags":[433,434,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11738,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/11738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edunile.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}