Writer Guide

Introduction
This chapter describes how to create and maintain a table of contents,
an index, and a bibliography for a text document using OpenOffice.org
Writer. To understand the instructions, you need to have a basic
familiarity with Writer and styles (see Chapters 6 and 7 for more about
styles).
Tables of contents
Writer’s table of contents feature lets you build an automated table of
contents from the headings in your document. Before you start, make
sure that the headings are styled consistently. For example, you can
use the Heading 1 style for chapter titles and the Heading 2 and
Heading 3 styles for chapter subheadings.
This section shows you how to:
• Create a table of contents quickly, using the defaults.
• Customize a table of contents.
Note
You can use custom styles for the different levels in the table
of contents as well. This document uses the default styles for
simplicity.
Creating a table of contents quickly
Although tables of contents can be customized extensively in Writer,
most of the time you will probably find the default to be fine. Creating
a quick table of contents is simple:
1) When you create your document, use the following paragraph
styles for different heading levels (such as chapter and section
headings): Heading 1 , Heading 2 , and Heading 3 . These are what
will appear in your table of contents. You can use more levels of
headings, but the default setting is to use only the first three
levels in the table of contents. It could look like Figure 325 if you
used the default styles.
2) Place the cursor where you want the table of contents to be
inserted.
3) Select Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables.
4) Change nothing in the Insert Index/Table dialog box (Figure 327).
Click OK. The result will look like Figure 326.
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