You can add a table of contents in Word to make your document look more professional and well-developed.

Inserting a table of contents in Microsoft Word provides an overview of the content. Here’s a guide on how to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word.

If you want to learn how to create Table of Contents with or without page numbers in Word on a Windows 11/10 PC, read this guide.

When you insert the table of contents, Word uses all text styled with one of the built-in heading styles. In this case, we kept things simple and used only one heading level, Heading 1.

It's easy to add page numbers, headers, footers, title pages and a table of contents to your Word documents. You just have to know where to look.