Table of Contents Word 2010 Transcript

Table of Contents Word 2010 Transcript

In this tutorial we will learn how to make an accessible table of contents that is automatically generated. A table of contents is useful for students who use assistive technology and also for students who do not. The table not only provides organization to the content, it also facilitates quick navigation throughout the document. If I hold the control key and click each heading of the table, I will automatically jump to that section of the document. It is important to create the table of contents using the Insert Table of Contents function and not create it manually. The manual version will not provide quick navigation throughout the document for students who use assistive technology and will be incorrect.

Now let’s open the document Table of Contents Tutorial 2010 from the materials section of the Accessibility Education Webpage. Let’s create an automatic table of contents for this document. First we will check that the document has been properly structured. Click on each of the bolded title headings and check that they are listed as heading 1 or heading 2 in the styles pane. The automatic table of contents function will use this structure to build the table. As you can see, all of the headings are ready to go. Next let’s move our cursor below Heading 1 titled Bloom’s Taxonomy. Then under the references tab, click table of contents. In the drop down menu, click Automatic Table 2. A table of contents has been generated.

This table of contents looks great but we might want to add some more information for quick navigation throughout the document. As we scroll down the document you will see a figure at the end of page 2. You will notice that the Figure 1 title heading has a normal style in the styles pane. Let’s change this to Heading 3. Furthermore, let’s scroll down to page 3 and change the Table 1 heading from normal to Heading 3 as well. Next let’s scroll back up to our table of contents we created earlier. Click anywhere in the table and then in the tab at the top click the Update Table button. In the dialog box, click Update Entire Table and then click ok. The new headings will be added to the table.

We can easily fix the font style, size, and color by highlighting the whole table. Then click the font style drop down menu. To match the theme of this document, choose Times New Roman with a 12 point font. Then in the font color drop down menu, choose automatic to change the color to black.

Now we have created an accessible table of contents.