How to Update Bookmark Numbers in Microsoft Word
Using the indexing and bookmarking features in Microsoft Word makes searching for and locating information in long, complex documents relatively simple in most cases. Commonly referred to simply as the "Table of Contents," or TOC, Word bookmarks allow you to click on listings of section headers or sub-headers and view the section instantly. If you add sections to a document with bookmarks, though, Word might not recognize them immediately and update the TOC. Nevertheless, formatting new bookmark sections correctly and assigning or updating page numbers manually usually takes no more than a minute.
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Instructions
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Format Bookmarks
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Launch Microsoft Word on your computer. Open the document to which you want to add bookmark sections -- or update ones already in place.
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Scroll to the section of the document that has a top-level header you want to use as a section on the bookmarks or TOC page. Highlight the header title -- or type in a new one -- then click the "Home" tab on the Word toolbar. Click the "Heading 1" link in the "Styles" section of the "Home" tab.
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Select a sub-heading or phrase --underneath the top-level heading -- then click the "Heading 2" link in the "Styles" box. Create additional top-level headings and sub-headings as needed. To create even lower-level headings -- headings under sub-headings -- use the "Heading 3," "Heading 4," "Heading 5" -- and so forth -- options.
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Click "File," then "Save" to save the heading changes to the document.
Create TOC and Update Page Numbers
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Scroll to the page on which you want to create the Table of Contents for the document. Click the "References" tab on the toolbar.
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Select a format style for the bookmarks, the click it. Word automatically creates a Table of Contents table on the page you selected.
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Use the "Styles" options on the "Home" tab to create additional topic headings, sub-headings and paragraph headings as needed.
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Click the "References" tab on the toolbar. Click the "Update Table" link. After the "Update Table of Contents" dialog box appears, click the "Update entire table" option, then "OK." Save the changes to your document.
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