create header and table of contents

am using word 2000....

i have a document and i have highlighted the text that separates different
topics from each other. nothing fancy, just to get the user to know that he's
looking at a different section. i am reading this and that that says there's
a good way of doing this electronically, by offsetting the sections by
defining them to be headings by formatting them somehow. how would i do that.
and i also read that you can further use those headings to define a table of
contents. that would be neat if i could do that.

tia,

-ted

Suzanne
Tue May 23 11:48:47 CDT 2006

You set them off as headings by applying heading styles; see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/UseBuiltInHeadingStyles.html. This
will make generating a TOC very simple; see
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

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"Ted" <Ted@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:473598EA-2FD0-4F68-A551-7F4F9AADE5D2@microsoft.com...
> am using word 2000....
>
> i have a document and i have highlighted the text that separates different
> topics from each other. nothing fancy, just to get the user to know that
he's
> looking at a different section. i am reading this and that that says
there's
> a good way of doing this electronically, by offsetting the sections by
> defining them to be headings by formatting them somehow. how would i do
that.
> and i also read that you can further use those headings to define a table
of
> contents. that would be neat if i could do that.
>
> tia,
>
> -ted