How to Add Custom Entries to a Table of Contents

Sometimes you want to add a note in the table of contents but you do not want to see it in the body of your document.

For that you should use Field code command here we are going to explain that.

1- Place the cursor at the beginning of the line which your desired header was placed there.

2- Click on the Insert tab.

3- In the next section choose Field.

4- In the left section in the Field names part choose TC.

5- In the Text entry part write your desired text.

6- In the Field option select outline levels box and choose your desired number.

Note;

you should not have that level in your table-of-contents.

Here we chose number 7 for that.

7- Because we do not want to show the page number for the text which we added, we select suppresses page number box.

8- Click on Ok.

9- Go to the table of contents page and click on Alt + F9.

Here you can see the codes, you need to alter the formula.

Add

\f

before the t switch in the formula.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS POINT WHICH YOU MUST HAVE SPACE AFTER f IN THE FORMULA.

in our example, the formula is equal to

{TOC \o “1-3” \h \z\f \t “custom style,4” }

10- Click on Update Table and select “Update entire table”.

11- Click Ok.

12- You can see your desired text was added into table-of-contents.

How to Modify the Text in Custom Entry.

1- Click on the Home tab.

2- In the Style part click on the arrow.

3- Select the level which you add your on it when you want to create your custom entry.

As you remember number 7 had been chosen by us.

4- Click on the arrow and choose Modify.

5- In the Modify Style dialogue, you can change the font colour and other properties which you want.

6- You can also click on the Format key and choose other characteristics which you want.

7- Here we chose Paragraph and modify the Indentation of it.

8- Click Ok.

You can see that the text which you added it to the table of contents was modified.