The result is an even smaller Table of Contents with the level two /film items closer together. Alternatively, you can select the ” Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same type ” option which will leave before and after settings intact for the first and last items in a particular TOC group. We’ll change the default 5pt After to 0pt. In the Styles pane go to the TOC 2 style | Modify Style | Format | Paragraph and check the Spacing before & after settings. In our example the level two items (films) could be grouped together to save some vertical space while still making logical sense. Standard Word TOC styles have the same line spacing regardless which can be a waste of space. Still too big? It’s also possible to change the line spacing for each ToC level.Įach heading or level in the Table of Contents has it’s own style cunningly called TOC 1 for level one (directors in our example), TOC 2 for level two (Films) and so on. In two columns the ToC takes up a lot less space (much less than a whole page) and the page numbers are closer to the heading. These days Word adds the Section Break (continuous) before and after the selected text. Long time Word users will remember when setting columns was a lot hard with Section Breaks etc. It’s also easier to read because there’s less space between the text and the page number.Ĭhoose the Table of Contents then Layout | Columns | Two Usually the ToC can fit into two columns more effectively. All the tab leaders (the dots etc across) fill up the page. Standard Table of Contents/Figures/Equations take up a lot of unnecessary horizontal space. Make a Table or list of Tables in a Word document.These tips also apply to other ‘Table of …’ parts of Word documents: We’ve seen ToC’s for big documents that take up many, many pages. Here’s an example of a Table of Contents (ToC) that’s grown too big using Word’s default settings.
There are some simple Microsoft Word tricks to squeeze a Table of Contents (or Table of Figures etc) into less pages.
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