Tables of Contents

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 12: Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies

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• Introduction
• Tables of Contents
  • Creating a Table of Contents Quickly
  • Customizing a Table of Contents
    • Index/Table Tab
    • Changing the Title
    • Setting the Type of Index
  • Protecting against Manual Changes
    • Changing the Number of Levels Included
    • Choosing the Scope of the Table of Contents
  • Creating a Table of Contents from an Outline
  • Creating from Additional Styles
  • Creating from Index Marks
    • Entries Page
    • Adding Elements
    • Changing Elements
    • Applying Changes to All Outline Levels
    • Deleting Elements
    • Hyperlinking an Entry
    • Applying Character Styles
    • Tab Position Relative to Paragraph Style Indent
    • Styles Tab
    • Columns Tab
    • Background Tab
    • Adding Color
    • Adding a Graphic
    • Deleting a Color or Graphic
  • Maintaining a Table of Contents
    • Editing a table of contents
    • Updating a Table of Contents
    • Deleting a Table of Contents
• Alphabetic Indexes
  • Adding Index Entries
  • Creating an Alphabetic Index Quickly
  • Customizing Index Entries
    • Example of Using an Index Key
  • Customizing the Appearance of an Index
    • Index/Table Page
    • Entries Tab
    • Adding Elements
    • Changing Elements
    • Deleting Elements
    • Applying Character Styles
    • Formatting Entries
    • Styles, and Background Tabs
    • Columns Tab
    • Adding Multiple Columns
  • Maintaining an Index
  • Viewing and Editing Existing Index Entries
• Other Types of Indexes
  • Example: Creating an Index of Figures
• Bibliographies
  • Creating a Bibliographic Database
    • Filtering Records
    • Changing Column Details
    • Changing the Data Source
    • Changing Field Details
  • Adding Entries to the Database
  • Maintaining Entries in the Database
  • Adding a Reference (Citation) into a Document
  • Formatting the Bibliography
    • Index/Table tabs
    • Entries Tab
    • Styles, Columns and Background tabs
    • Generating the Bibliography
  • Defining the Paragraph Style for the Bibliography
  • Updating and Editing an Existing Bibliography

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Tables of Contents

Writer’s table of contents feature lets you build an automated table of contents from the headings in your document. Whenever changes are made to the text of a heading in the body of the document or the page on which the heading appears, those changes automatically appear in the table of contents when it is next updated.

Before you start, make sure that the headings are styled consistently. For example, you can use the Heading 1 style for chapter titles and the Heading 2 and Heading 3 styles for chapter subheadings.

This section shows you how to:

• Create a table of contents quickly, using the defaults.
• Customize a table of contents.

You can use any style for the different levels you want to include in the table of contents. But, for the sake of simplicity, most of this chapter uses the default Heading [x] styles.