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Of Contents: Update Customize Your TOC

This document discusses how to create, update, and customize a table of contents (TOC) in Microsoft Word. It explains that heading styles hold formatting and outline level information that is used to generate the TOC. It also explains that the space between a TOC entry and its page number is called a tab leader, which can be changed from the default dots to something else like an underline by using the Custom TOC option without needing to re-select or restart the TOC.

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Of Contents: Update Customize Your TOC

This document discusses how to create, update, and customize a table of contents (TOC) in Microsoft Word. It explains that heading styles hold formatting and outline level information that is used to generate the TOC. It also explains that the space between a TOC entry and its page number is called a tab leader, which can be changed from the default dots to something else like an underline by using the Custom TOC option without needing to re-select or restart the TOC.

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of contents

Create, update, and customize a table of contents


You don’t need to wait

This doc isn’t just for

To add a TOC (

Update
Under the hood: Heading styles hold formatting, font, size, color, and more. They also hold a
paragraph format known as an outline level, which is picked up by the TOC.

Customize your TOC


The space between an entry and its page number in a TOC is known as a tab leader. By default,
Word makes the tab leader a row of dots (dot leader), but you can easily switch to something
else, like an underline. You don’t need to start over—you don’t even need to select the TOC.

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Word knows where it is. Just use the Custom TOC option to make this type of change, and Word
will do its thing.

Try It: Change the dot leader to an underline.

1. On the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then near the bottom, click
Custom Table of Contents.

2. From the list of Tab Leader options, select Line (last choice in the list), and click OK.

3. When you’re prompted to replace the TOC, click Yes.

And just like that, Word found your TOC and changed the tab leader from dots to an underline.

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