How to create a table of contents in LibreOffice Writer

[@ronalddonaghe3674]

This was the clearest and easiest to follow instructions for creating a Table of Contents for Libre Writer I have found and...it worked, once I knew the important steps to check.

[@MelCompton]

Hello! Thank you for your kind words. I'm am glad it helped!

[@generybarczyk6993]

Nicely done. I'm editing a manual on supervision and feared the ToC day I knew was coming.. I appreciate your slow, deliberate cursor moves and stops, allowing the initiate to follow along. I've noted, over the decades, that one of the faults of experts is that they have lost sight of the basics and how truly unknowing a novice can be. But not here. Thanks.

[@str8busta]

Love your accent, forgot to set the header so you helped me big time. Cheers from Sweden!

[@camerond.blackwell7493]

Thank you so much for this video! You have solved years of frustration for me! I can't believe how easy it was!

[@TheRealBronweN]

This was super clear, easy to follow step by step. I'm subscribing, and I'm making a shortcut on my browser to your channel. I'm so glad I found your info!!

[@johncazier6771]

Wow, this is very excellent instruction! I had to wade through some really awful "instructional videos" on this topic before I found this coherent and excellent presentation. Thanks! I have subscribed!

[@MelCompton]

Thank you so much! I'm glad it helped!

[@gerzallazreg]

I found myself loving your channel and your videos thank you so much

[@biggfoot52]

Ive been doing this ALL wrong. Thanks for you sharing this video!

[@jeanne-pierrevandergryp8441]

Hi Melissa - great video - well done! The problem Im having is that the Table of Contents font is different to that of the document. How do I correct the Table of Contents to use the same Font as used for each of Heading 1; Heading 2 etc.?

[@bharaninathkomandur6330]

You can change it manually.

[@shinoypb6056]

Thank you so much Melissa , you saved my day.

[@MelCompton]

Thank you! I'm glad it helped!

[@TiagoPereira-hm1nq]

Thank you. Very clear and extremely well explained.

[@hasindepalma9027]

Thank you! This video helped me a lot.

[@sydd2469]

This was a great help and exactly what I needed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[@angusorvid8840]

I only use Office because I have to for work, but I actually prefer LibreOffice and Writer especially. It's terrific. I also find it a lot more stable and punchier than Word. I also love that Libre's default setting uses dropdown menus, which I've always preferred to Word's horrible tabs, which I still haven't gotten used to. Yes, Libre gives you the option of using tabs, but I'll pass on that. Good lesson.

[@amymcmillan3796]

This is a life saver.. Thank you

[@AdhiciptaPlayground]

Thank you, this tutorial help me to solve my problem

[@dewubesekaraapp6904]

Great video !! Very well explained Thank a bunch !!

[@fkustaa]

Thank you for your video on how to create a table for content in LibreOffice. My problem is that I am following your instructions on how to do this. However, the LibreOffice Writer is not picking up the (Introduction and Chapters) after I formatted them in the document as Headings 1. Do you have suggestions on what I should do?

[@MelCompton]

Hello! Did you select each heading and change it to heading 1, 2 or 3?

[@fkustaa]

@@MelCompton Thank you for your quick response and suggestion. I don't know what your suggestion mean. Does this mean that I have to format each chapter three times as Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 before each chapter can be picked up and appear in the table of contents?

[@MelCompton]

@@fkustaa hello! Is each heading formatted as a header?

[@fkustaa]

@@MelCompton Again, Thank you Ms. Compton. Your suggestion worked and I am now done with the Table of Contents.

[@fkustaa]

@@MelCompton Yes, I went back and checked. I saw that I formatted each title as Heading 1, but when I checked I saw that Heading 1 was not in the list of Headings. So in order to get the tiles picked as items in the Table of Contents, I formatted the titles as Headings 2, and it worked. Thank you for your input through your question.

[@beowulfarsene3687]

creating a table of content is handy especially when writing many pages

[@artgalleryandcraftsbydeb9135]

Hi this is a great video and you explain things so well. I have subscribed and liked…If you can answer a few questions that would be great. I am writing a book and need more than ten contents..also is it possible to insert a page into a document without pushing down the images or content below it. I do the insert page break but it affects all other things below…not sure how to keep this from happening. Thank you

[@larsbitsch-larsen6988]

Thank you for a very good instruction. Now I am wondering why is the contents background grey? Can this be changed to white?

[@MelCompton]

Good morning! Thank you for the question. I created a video explaining why the background is gray and how to make it a different color or remove it all together. You can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWaYhqedaNCpoZo

[@lindagutierrez5409]

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[@MelCompton]

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[@tommyservo9660]

Thanks! Neat glasses by the way.

[@fkustaa]

Dear Ms. Melissa Compton, do you have a video on how to format the name of the author and book title in the Header in LibreOffice?

[@MelCompton]

There is not a default Author and Book Title Header.

[@wilsontollinchi6856]

Awesome. But how can I get the dots out?

[@MelCompton]

Hi! Go to the entries tab when you are setting up or editing the table of contents>T>Fill Character NONE

[@moirabryant6838]

Thankyou!

[@tiagomelo8071]

Thanks very much!

[@MelCompton]

You're welcome! Glad it helped!

[@MP-me5vl]

Thank you

[@MelCompton]

Thank you! I'm glad it helped!

[@CarolUndy]

Brilliant.

[@Stribog1337]

THANK YOU

[@MrChrisKnight]

Its so weird when I use heading 1 -2- 3 It still doesn't show up on my table of contents.

[@kvelez]

Good video.

[@MattKasdorf]

D'oh 😮 I was doing this all manually 🥴

[@rjh1394]

Example works great for a document that is primarily text, but what if the document is a large collection of images in no particular order.

[@MelCompton]

Do the images have headers in the document?

[@StacyHackney-z2x]

thank you