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Long documents such as business proposals, technical reports or other big Word files containing several sections or chapters often require a table of contents. Perhaps you even included a list of all the figures or tables used in the document. Or you might have inserted cross-references to other pages or a list of keywords found in the document with the page numbers the words appear on. As you may know, these references are inserted into your document as a field, which means that you need to update them as the document progresses. You can obviously right-click the reference and select Update Field, but if you have used a variety of fields throughout your document this will be cumbersome. So why not ensure you update all references in one go.
Here's how:
To make sure that you don't forget to update your fields before you print your document, you can set Word to update them automatically.
Here's how:
Oh, and remember, if you use Word's built-in Styles you can take advantage of quickly creating a Table of Contents and other fabulous options available in the navigation pane (see tip_415.php). And if Microsoft's choice of formatting is not what you want, you can easily modify them.
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* Unless stated otherwise, these tips were written for Microsoft Office 2010.
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