
In order to quickly see all headers in a Word document, click on the View tab and then check the box under Navigation Pane. Note that when you add headers, it will be hard to see the headers, even if you have paragraph marks visible. Go through the document and add as many of these headings as you would like. Just click on the line with the text and then click on the heading style you want to apply. It’s very easy to apply headings to text in Word. You’ll just have to insert a custom TOC and change a few settings, which I will also mention. When you are going through your document to add the different headings, feel free to pick from any of the above-mentioned headings if only H1, H2 and H3 feel too restricted. If you add a custom TOC, you can also use H4 (Heading 4), H5 (Heading 5), H6 (Heading 6), Subtitle, Title, and TOC Heading. These are the only three you can use for a default TOC. You can find these headings in the Styles box on the main Home tab in the ribbon. By default, the allowed headers you can use are H1 (Heading 1), H2 (Heading 2) and H3 (Heading 3).

The first thing you’ll want to do before you can create any table of contents is to setup your headers.
