Preparing headers Before you insert the table of contents, you will need to apply heading styles to the pages on your document, which will then be used by Word to formulate the table itself.

Microsoft Word has a built-in feature for creating a table of contents. Learn how to substitute your own custom styles for the default styles.

If you want to learn how to create Table of Contents with or without page numbers in Word on a Windows 11/10 PC, read this guide.

When you insert the table of contents, Word uses all text styled with one of the built-in heading styles. In this case, we kept things simple and used only one heading level, Heading 1.