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How to do automatic index in Word? [EASY]

Insert an automatic index easily

Making an automatic index in Word is necessary for different jobs, even the most basic. With it you can organize all the content of your work / monograph / thesis. But you must keep something in mind, the correct format What should we do?

First What is an automatic index in Word?

It is an organization tool with which you can access content easily and quickly; When you enter the file you will see that list of content available to click on it. In another post we teach you to how to make a photo collage in Word, we invite you to read it and learn how easy it is.

Now, continuing with the index, if you look at the top of Word, there are some options on the home tab, where you will see the following:

title 1 to create index

In this headline are the options that we are going to use, so that the automatic index in word is generated correctly, you must let it know What comes first and what follows within it? For example: If you have a chapter at work, and from there different topics are broken down; to the chapter you will give the title 1, and the topics contained in that chapter you must place title 2. How to do it?

You must select each main title of the job and there go to the option of title 1. By pressing the option the title will change color, size and font; but you can modify these without problems, it will stay with the 'title' setting.

how to insert an automatic index in word

As you can see, the 'intro' text has changed color, but you can simply modify the font, color and size.  

shade the text to select title 1 for automatic indexing

On the contrary, if it is a simple job and no topic has a hierarchy, you can put all of them title 1. This procedure should be done with all the main topics that the work / monograph / thesis takes.

Now How to insert automatic index in Word?

SELECT BEFORE WHERE YOU WANT THE AUTOMATIC INDEX; Y in the upper tab of REFERENCES, there is a section called 'Table of Contents'When you click there, you must select 'Table of contents 1', the list of contents will automatically appear.

click the table of contents to generate the index

What should we consider?

At the time of inserting the automatic index, it will be shown with the enumeration corresponding to the page (even when it is not enumerated), in the event that it is not the enumeration that you want to appear, you must first carry out the simple enumeration of pages, or enumeration with page breaks.

example of automatic index with only title 1

This is how the index is displayed when all the topics have been selected under the Heading 1 scheme. In this example, the index has taken page number 1 and the content has taken page number 2, so all the content is located with number 2 .

When there is a variation between title 1 and title 2, the automatic index looks like this:

example of automatic index with title 1 and 2.

If you don't know how to do the enumeration here you can learn how to number pages in Word easily or with page breaks.

How to number pages in word
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If you have forgotten this previous step, after making your enumeration and all the pending modifications, adjust all your texts, titles and subtitles; then you can update the index automatically.

Update automatic index with update table option.

You click on the table and update table appears, click there, that box to update table of contents appears, you have 2 options, the first one, you can simply update the page numbers; but if you have changed some titles 1 a titles 2, You will be able to see the changes in the index by selecting that option and accepting.

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