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Google has implemented an option that is a great alternative to the Table of Contents! Many people felt (especially with LONG documents) that a Table of Contents (TOC) added a lot of clutter to the top of the document, even while it provided needed links to the document sections.  (If you don't know what the Table of Contents is or want to know more about it, check out my post  Google Documents - Using a Table of Contents .)  Like in this example - Google has now added another option to provide those links without it being added to the top of the document - it is the Outline option.  This is found under the Tools Menu - Once you select it, an outline is displayed on the left side of the document - What is displayed?  Well, like the TOC you have to utilize the formatting for headings & titles rather than set them manually & individually- (A note - you can always customize the color/font/size of the headings by setting that particular ...

Often I get asked how to make links within a long Google Document.  While this is a useful skill to have, upon further questioning most people really want a Table of Contents page that links to the major headings and sub-headings of the document - similar to what I have here in a Google Document I used for a recent meeting: Really, a table of contents area can be a powerful and quick tool to use in longer documents.  And learning how to create them may actually make you more efficient if you are a person that likes to take time to format your headings within the document. Here are the steps on how to setup and insert your Table of Contents - to start, here is a picture of my document prior to my setting it up: Note that in addition to the table of contents not being there, my headings look like normal text at this point. 1. First you need to "mark" what you want to appear in the table of contents.  To do this: Put your cursor somewhere in your heading...