With Google Docs, you can easily create a simple and easy-to-read table of contents for your document based on text using the “headings” format
Simply follow the steps below and learn how to make table of contents in Google Docs both before and after adding your headings.
How to create a table of contents before adding headings:
Step 1:
Place your cursor where you’ll want your eventual table of contents.
Step 2:
Select “Insert” from the menubar and scroll to the bottom.
Step 3:
Now hover over “Table of contents.”
Step 4:
Choose between three table of contents formats as shown above.
Step 5:
Compose your doc, adding headings throughout. To add headings, hit the “Normal text” drop-down on your toolbar, select either “Heading 1,” “Heading 2” or “Heading 3,” then write out the headlines for your document.
Step 6:
Right-click on the placeholder text and select “Update table of contents,” or hover over the table of contents to make an update icon appear on the left.
Your headings will now appear in your table of contents.
How to create a table of contents after adding headings:
Step 1:
As you’re writing your doc, add headings for different segments of your document.
Step 2:
Move your cursor to where you want the table of contents to appear.
Step 3″
Select “Insert” from the menubar and scroll to the bottom.
Step 4:
Hover over “Table of contents.”
Step 5:
Choose between the available formats; segment name and numbers, segment name and dotted lines to numbers or segment names with hyperlinks.
Step 6:
If you add something to your document and need to update the table of contents, right-click on the table and choose “Update table of contents,” or hover over the table of contents to use the update icon.
Once you’ve added a table of contents, you can customize it to match your needs by hovering over it.
That’s it! Now you can make even more organized Google Docs.
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Why would any Apple user use Google docs when their EULA states that any of their dev’s and affiliated dev’s can read your documents? Especially when they have Pages for free? Even the ability to collaborate with others on Pages docs in real time I find to be very useful to keep docs in sync b/w your personal Apple ID and workplace Apple ID when needed. You can always export to Word or PDF or other formats to send files to non-Apple users. I am not sure why any Apple user would want to choose Google Docs and have all their files read over by a search engine that wants to train their new AI toy to try and catch up to ChatGPT?