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Hierarchy of Headings
To customise a table of contents, you need to understand the hierarchy of headings. To customise a table of
contents and index, your document should be maintained properly with headings and appropriate character
styles. All the contents must be organised in a good manner with the proper level of headings. Headings are
built-in styles available in digital documentation software. These headings are useful for preparing a table of
contents and indexes. These headings have different levels with numbers starting from 1. The main heading is
always heading 1. Then its subheading will come accordingly. Top-level headings are bigger compared to lower-
level headings.

Writer provides 3 levels of headings
by default.

Customising a Table of Contents
To insert a customised table of contents into your document:
Step 1: Place the cursor where you want to insert the table of contents.
Step 2: Click on InsertTable of Contents and Index Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography option. The
Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography dialog box opens.
It has five tabs. Any or all of them can be used when creating or editing a table of contents:
• The Type tab is used to set the attributes of the table of contents.
• The Entries and Styles tab are used to format the entries in the table of contents.

• The Columns tab is used to put the table of contents into more than one column.
• The Background tab is used to add colour or a graphic to the background of the table of contents.

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