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Tables of Contents and FiguresImportant: The generation of a Table of Contents depends on Heading styleshaving been applied to your headings.25Producing a Table of Contents is a simple matter of ensuring that each topic youwant to appear in the contents page is formatted with one of Word’s Heading styles.Creating the Table of Contents is something that you do towards the end of thedocument production task, but you must plan for it from the earliest stage so thatyou have some idea which topics will be appropriate to include.Select the desired format for your Table of Contents, checking the Preview boxin the Table of Contents window to see how the table will be displayed after it isgenerated (remember also to check that it is acceptable to the University and yourdepartment). Try out this simple procedure on the practice file.Generating a Table of ContentsÂÂOpen the file calledpractice. Format the headings from levels one to three.ÂÂCheck that you are inNormal view. Insert page breaks after each paragraph. With the insertion point in the first page, put a page number in the footer. Place the insertion point before the first heading and insert a next page sectionbreak. Place the insertion point in the new page you have just created.ÂÂType Table of Contents in the Normal style but make it bold and a largerfont size.  Press the[Return] key.ÂÂKeep the insertion point in theÂÂTable of Contents page.From the Insert menu, select Reference. Choose Index and Tables. (Mac:Insert/Index and Tables.)ÂÂSelect theTable of Contents tab.Producing a Thesis or Long Document in Word