Easy Table of Contents in Google Docs Anyone Can Do

Tired of endlessly scrolling through your long  Google Docs? A table of contents is the perfect   solution, letting you instantly jump to any  section and making your document look professional   for printing. In this video, I'll show you how  to create, update, and use a table of contents in   just a few clicks. Let's get started. I have this  document here. It's four pages long, and you can   see that there's different chapters in it and the  subheadings to it. If you'd like to work with this   document, I'll put the link down below. and it'll  create a copy for you and you can follow along   right with this tutorial. So the first thing I'm  going to do in this document is actually just go   to insert and I'm going to insert a break and I'm  just going to put a section break here. So just so   we have this new page on top. Let's go ahead now  and I'll show you where you can insert your table   of contents. If I go to insert and then you go to  page elements, you'll see table of contents and   you have a few different choices. You can just  do it number, dotted, or just with links. Now,   I'm just going to pick this one right here, but  you can still change this in the options. Now,   notice I put the table of contents in, but nothing  from my document went into the table of contents.    That's because the way Google Docs works, it's  really important to understand how the headings   work, the heading styles work inside Google Docs.   And we're going to start adding some styles to the   different headings. Now, this across the top, the  ultimate guide, is going to be the title. And I'm   going to drop down here from where it says normal  text. And I'm just going to click on title. And   now, this is going to be classified as a title.   When I go to chapter 1 here, I'm going to go   ahead and select this one. I'm going to drop  down and I'm going to click heading one. Now,   this is kind of uh large for what I want. So,  I'm going to shrink this a little bit here. So,   I'm going to go to 16. I'm going to drop down  again and I'm going to go update heading one to   match because now if I go to the next chapter  I'm going to move down to chapter two. We can   go ahead now if I click heading one that will  match the first one. I'm going to go back up   to my table of contents here. And look at this.   So if I update the table of contents now I have   chapter 1 and chapter 2. So I'm going to go back  down to these. Maybe I want some subheadings. So,   if I go to this one, and this time I'm going  to go to heading two again. I can make this   smaller. Maybe I'll go to 12 and I'll do the same  thing. Update to match. So, if these are going to   be different parts where it's going to be heading  two, now I can quickly go through and change these   to heading two. If I go back up to the top again  and I go and hit refresh, you can see how the   page numbers are getting inserted automatically at  different times. You can make some changes here.    So if I go to more options, you can see if I click  on it to the dots to the links or back if I don't   want to show the page numbers, show tab uh leader.   There you have lots of different choices that you   can do some options to customize this. Now, I'm  going to go through and just quickly update all   my different headings. Now, I've gone through now  and updated all of my different headings with the   styles that I needed. All I have to do is come  back up here and hit refresh. Just like that,   in a few clicks, I have this professional looking  table of contents here. And remember how you can   edit. The other thing I want to point out is if  I just open this up on the side, as soon as I put   those headings in, those styles, this becomes a  quick table of contents on the side where I can   jump around. So, you have some different options  how you want to jump around the documents. You   could put links in your table contents as well.   You can still add more subheadings below the   subheadings that you already have. If I go lower  to three, if I go back up and refresh this again,   you'll see that in this case now this one  is indented from it. Noticing that it's a   different section. So, if I wanted to have the  title in here, I could make that heading one and   then the other one's heading two, heading three.   So, some options on how you play with it. I hope   you like this little tip about how to create  a professionallook table of contents in Google   Docs. Thanks for watching this time. We'll see  you next week with more tech tips and tutorials.