Modern word processing software makes it incredibly easy to generate a table of contents for documents. However, that feature is predicated on users applying styles to document text to instruct the program on which text snippets need to be listed in the table of contents and thereby what pages that content can be found on.…

This post walks through applying “styles” in Microsoft Word. Using styles helps increase efficiency in formatting documents, generates click navigation within a document, and unlocks the table of contents generator tool.