How to Create a Table of Contents in a PDF | Using MS Word & LibreOffice

[Music] hey everyone welcome to another how tech video tutorial in this video we'll be showing you how to make a table of contents in a pdf a table of contents is a list usually at the beginning of a document that contains important headings and their page numbers pdfs can be hard to edit but we'll show you a couple ways to do it let's add a table of contents to this document the easiest method is to use microsoft word click file open and open the pdf to convert it hit ok if the document didn't convert properly we'll address that after the method using word click view navigation pane if the document has no headings you will have to add them in yourself select each heading and click heading 1 at the top or press ctrl alt 1. after setting all of your headings set the cursor at the beginning and insert page break set the cursor at the top and click references table of contents and choose a style we can now click file export create adobe pdf save it and now we have a pdf with a table of contents that method is great but only if it works some pdfs do not convert well if your pdf failed to convert properly try this next method download and install the libreoffice suite it is free open source and has a pdf editor called libreoffice draw before using draw try to convert the pdf with libreoffice writer with practically the same steps as microsoft word sometimes this will give you a better result and if it does follow the ms word steps for creating a table of contents if it still does not convert well open the pdf with libreoffice draw most editors cannot create an automatic table of contents but will be able to keep the original format of the pdf run draw and open the pdf right click in the pages window on the left and click new page drag and drop the page if needed click insert text box and draw it where you like you can now manually create the table of contents and format the text with the menu on the right this method takes more time but the pdf will not be ruined through a conversion when done click file export and change the type to pdf we learned a couple of ways to add a table of contents to a pdf make sure you try the first methods to see if they work what other pdf edits do you want to learn how to do thanks for watching if you like this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel make sure to press the bell button to be the first to know about our new videos

Channel: Excel, Word and PowerPoint Tutorials from Howtech

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Length: 2min 57sec (177 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021