Generating a Table of Contents

1. Place the cursor at the location in the document where you want the Table of Contents to start.

2. From the Insert menu, choose Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables.

3. On the Index/Table tab, enter a title (this will be the heading that displays on the Table of Contents page) and select Table of Contents from the Type menu.

4. Select how many levels you want to display in your Table of Contents. Typically, 3-4 levels is sufficient, depending on how many levels of headings you use in your document.

5. Check the Outline and Index boxes and click the [...] button next to Outline.

6. This is where you map your levels to your paragraph styles. For example, if you use a Heading 1 and a Heading 1 Without Numbering, you need to make sure that both headings are mapped to Level 1. You do this by selecting 1 in the Level column and then selecting the paragraph style in the Paragraph Style menu. Writer automatically maps Heading 1 – Heading 10 to the appropriate level, but you will need to map each custom head you have applied in the document and wish to display in the Table of Contents.

7. By default, the Table of Contents will have a gray background, because it is wrapped in a read-only section. The gray background will not be printed. Anyway it is possible to disable the read-only mode in the index dialog. You can change the color of the background by clicking the Background tab and selecting a color.Frank Loehmann2009-07-15T19:03:26

   Wrong. It is only gray because the index wrapped in a read-only section. Will not be printed it is a screen only representation of that section. Read-only could be disabled in index dialog.

8. Click OK.

Note: Unfortunately, the page number formats of the various page styles are not automatically adopted by the Table of Contents. This means that anomalies in the Table of Contents, arising from this cause will have to be corrected manually. Be sure to un-check the Protect against manual changes box to enable the ability to make manual changes to the table.

Figure 22: Inserting a Table of Contents.