Though you all may know about the Table of Contents, let me talk clearly about this. Table of Contents or TOC is a table in which we manage and sort Titles of the Topics in a document, magazine, book or article by the page number on Microsoft word.

The most necessary thing about the Table of Contents that all must know is that TOC can’t be created without any heading or level applied to the titles of the topics. MS word has 1-9 headings and 1-9 levels. Almost levels and heading are equal by formation.

Let’s start creating a TOC with heading and levels.

Step One:

• Type some texts having titles.
• Select their titles and apply heading from 1 to 9 or apply levels.
• Concentrate on the picture below:

Step Two:

• After Applying levels and headings to the titles of the topics and Chapters, Click a place where you want to add a Table of Contents.
• For Creating TOC go to the REFERENCES Tab and Table of Contents Group.
• Click on the First Option to view a pre-designed list of TOC.
• Select a type from the list, it will automatically create a table of contents.
• See the picture below:

You can see our Table of Contents as an example below:

Add more Levels and Headings

If your list of contents is incomplete and you cannot see titles with heading or level more then heading / level three then do the following:

1. Go to REFERENCES Tab, Table of Contents Group.
2. Click on the drop-down button and Choose Custom Table of Contents From the end of the list.
3. Go to Show Levels: and turn that from 3 to 9.
4. As picture below;

Please ask your questions and share your View with us through comments.

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Word 2013 introduces a new feature that allows you to expand and collapse certain parts of your document. It reminds me very much of the kind of web page interactivity that lets you click on a brief summary of something to display a more detailed description. And that’s precisely what this is.

If you can’t visualize this concept, let’s illustrate it with a simple example. Create a new blank document in Word 2013 and create a heading 1 followed by some text. To quickly create some random text, you can type in =rand() and press Enter to create five paragraphs each of five lines. Now create a heading 2 followed by more text. When you hover over any heading, you will see an arrow pointing in a particular direction, and the direction tells us whether clicking on it will expand or collapse what is below the heading.

This arrow, when clicked, collapses the content below the heading:

This is what the heading looks like after the collapse arrow has been clicked:

You can see that everything below the heading has been collapsed and only the heading is now displayed. This is a convenient way of hiding content you don’t want to see so you only see the outline of the document. If you want to read the content, just click on the arrow again.

The expand/collapse arrows don’t necessarily affect everything below their header. They only affect the content below the header and up to the next header of equal or greater value. For example, this “Technig.com” consists of “Technig.com” which is a heading 1, and two heading 2s for “Office” and “Programming”.

Collapsing “Technig.com” will hide everything but the heading “Technig.com”. Collapsing “Office” will collapse only the list of Office Programs but will leave the “Programming” section on display. Similarly, collapsing “Programming” will leave “Office” on display. This is the way you would expect, and indeed want, it to work.

There is a quick way to expand or collapse all headings in your document; right click on a heading > Expand/Collapse, and select Expand all Headings or Collapse all Headings.

When you open a document, all headings are expanded by default. You can change this though, so that they are all collapsed: go to the Home tab, and click the dialogue box launcher in the paragraph group:

In the Paragraph window that opens, ensure that Collapsed by default is checked.

Note that this feature is only usable when you’re reading a document on your computer; it doesn’t work on a printout!

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Macros in fact are actions which we record. We can assign shortcuts to them for easy use. Check here for “How to create a macro”. If you have a Macro and often use it while working with the documents, Workbooks, Presentations or Database, you might use shortcut keys to run the Macro or the VIEW | DEVELOPER tab.

There is another way to easily use a Macro and that is creating a Command Button for the Macro. After creating a button, just a click is required to run the Macro.

Below are the Steps:

You must have a recorded macro to proceed.

I’ve tried this for MS word 2013.

 Select the Quick Access Toolbar’s drop-down button and choose More Commands.

 Complete the Process:

No. 1: Choose Macros from the list.

No. 2: Select the Macro that you want.

No. 3: Click “Add”.

No. 4: Check whether your macro is added to the list or not.

No. 5: Click Modify.

Assign Icon to Macro:

No.1: Select an Icon for your Macro.

No. 2: Give a name to your Command Button.

No. 3: Click “OK”.

All Done!

This is the example below;

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Microsoft Word gives us many great options such as macro for easy and better use.

Simply macros are the commands for different actions, or we can say that macros are the recorded actions.

In this post we are going to learn how to record a macro and use it with an easy way like a SHORTCUT!

Our example will be:

A macro that moves a word left to right.

Type some words like below:

• Place your mouse courser at the right side of a word.

Start Recording a Macro:

• Go to VIEW Tab & Macros group.
• Select Macros drop-down button and Record Macro.

Name and Assign Shortcut for your Macro:

1. Type a name for your macro. (No space is allowed)
2. Click to assign a keyboard shortcut. (complete No. 3 then No. 2)
3. If you want, add some Descriptions.
4. Click “OK” (Complete the process of assigning a shortcut key then Press it)

Assign Keyboard Shortcut:

1. Type a Shortcut key.
2. Click Assign to specify that shortcut for your macro.
3. See your Keyboard Shortcut here.
4. Press Close.

Now your macro is being recorded.

• You must have place your courser to the any word in the middle of the sentence.
• Press F8 two times to select that word then press Esc.
• Hold and Press SHIFT + Delete buttons on your keyboard to send the word to Clipboard.
• Hold and Press Ctrl + Right Arrow Key, to Move your mouse courser to the right of the other word.
• Hold and Press SHIFT + Insert buttons on keyboard to paste the word from Clipboard.
• Hold and Press Ctrl + Left Arrow Key, to bring the mouse courser to it’s first place.
• Now you can stop Macro from Status Bar.

Your Text should look like this!

 Congrats! Now it is completed and you can move a word from left to right by the Keyboard Shortcut or the Macro recorded.

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