
Highlight the chaper title, insert, hyperlink, document, location, headings, pick the right chapter, then click ok, then click ok again. Manually create hyperlinks to each of the chapters in the table of contents. So I think it’s best to use it to generate the text, but not actually use it as the actual table of contents.Ĭreate the Hyperlinks to the Table of ContentsĦ.
TABLE OF CONTENTS WORD 2011 FOR MAC UPDATE
The reason is, in the next step we’re adding hyperlinks from the table of contents to the chapter titles, but if you do this using the table of contents that’s from the insert function, it will delete the hyperlinks if you accidentally update the table. Or if your eBook has lots and lots of chapters and sub-chapters, use the Insert Table feature to quickly create a table of contents, but you will need to copy and paste it elsewhere and then paste it back into your eBook to use. You can type out the chapters, or copy and paste them. Highlight all sub-chapter headings and set them to Heading 2.ĥ. Highlight all chapter titles and set them to Heading 1.

Once you’ve made Table of Contents a bookmark it should look like this You can upload it to Kindle without hiding the bookmarks, it will work fine.Ĥ. Verify that the Table of Contents is indeed bookmarked by going into your Word, Preferences, View, Show Bookmarks. Other eBook publishers may need this to be different.ģ. You must type “toc” and nothing else in order for Kindle to work. This step is necessary for Kindle to recognize this location as the official table of contents and so that the “Go To” lists the table of contents in the list of choices and it works properly.

Highlight the words “Table of Contents” and then click Insert, Bookmark, and type “toc” (without quotes), and click Add.

Write the title “Table of Contents”, without the quotes, where ever you want the table of contents to appear in your ebook.Ģ. So here are the steps I used, in the hope that it helps another person to do the same thing.Ĭreate the Title for the Table of Contentsġ. Many of the tutorials are for Word for PC, which actually has a critical feature missing, that makes it much more tedious to do on a Mac.
TABLE OF CONTENTS WORD 2011 FOR MAC HOW TO
If you’re on a Mac, running Word 2011, and you want to publish a book on Kindle, it is really hard to find a good tutorial on how to create a table of contents.
