Word document

nimbo

Hi,

As part of my course work for university placement will compiling a portfolio. This will be compiled over 4 months, and will need to show competencies, what I would love to do is have a contents page that automatically updates each time I insert more pages into the (what ill become a mammoth) document...

I would also like to have a grid referencing for example a certain word, and will automatically update the page number I have popped into it...

I know the contents page is possible - but I can't remember how to do it (i was taught on the older version of word)....

And I hope the grid is, as updating that at the end each time i amend the document will become a huge task....

I reailse it may be a pain to set up, but I hoping at the 11th hour when I need to have the document bound etc it will pay dividends...

If anyone could tell me how to do this - or what word calls it so I can search using the help function that would be a great help.

Many thanks,

Naomi

Jivesinger

Word refers to the contents page stuff as "Table of contents". Another couple of things to search for are "Styles" and "Outline Styles".

The trick (very roughly) is that as you write each heading to a section that you want in the table of contents, you use a particular Style for that heading. And you set up the Style so Word knows to put it in the contents page. However Styles can behave in very strange ways sometimes.

I only have an old version of Word too, but for the referencing I use an option called Insert -> Reference in this old version. Search for Cross Reference as well. The way I do it is to put hidden "Bookmarks" in the document and then when I want to refer to it, insert a Cross Reference to that Bookmark which shows the page number.

Edit: Have a look for "Create an Index" and Index as well.

nimbo

thanks for that - I always find the first hurdle is knowing what word calls things...

xx