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To change the overall appearance of your Table of Contents, click the Formats list, and then click the format that you want. To change the number of levels displayed in your Table of Contents, click Show levels, and then click the number of levels you want.

Cleaning up the Table of Contents (TOC) in Microsoft Word Highlight the text. Go to 'References' Click on the 'Add Text' pull-down menu. Check Do Not Show in Table of Contents.

The Table of Contents is a fieldcode so it can be converted to text by unlinking the fieldcode. Do the following: Highlight the entire Table of Contents. Press Ctrl + Shift + F9 (Windows) or or Cmd + Shift + F9 (Mac) to unlink the field code.

Ctrl-click on the text in your TOC that you want to remove to go to that text in the document. Change the style of that text from one that is used for TOC reference. (i.e. you do not want a Heading style.) You can have the formatting look the same if you want, but the style must be different.

To adjust table row and column size in Word: Click anywhere in the table. In "Table Tools" click the Layout tab > locate the "Cell Size" group and choose from of the following options: To fit the columns to the text (or page margins if cells are empty), click AutoFit > select "AutoFit Contents."

Cells to merge have to be entirely, not partially adjacent to each other. The Merge Cells button will be unavailable/greyed out if the selected cells can't be merged.

Format or customize a table of contents Go to References > Table of Contents. Select Custom table of contents. Use the settings to show, hide, and align page numbers, add or change the tab leader, set formats, and specify how many levels of headings to show. For more info, see Custom table of contents .