Help! I need to create a nice clean contents page for my eBook, using Open Office. Can someone please give me step-by-step instructions. I am not technical so please imagine you are explaining to a bright 10 year old. no wait they’d know more!! you get the picture
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To be able to insert an automatic table of contents you have to use styles for your headings and subheadings, not just merely make them larger and bolder than the body text. If you look at your toolbar area, to the left of the font and font size boxes, i.e. the first one, this is the style box. So if you want a heading, use Heading 1, subheadings, Heading 2, etc.
Then when you have typed up your document, go back to the top of the document, click on Insert on the Menu bar, down to Indexes and Tables, across to indexes and tables and from the window, I zsuggest you click on the Styles tab and select perhaps 3 levels, press OK and your table of contents should be inserted.
As these are fields, say you then amend your document, say add more paragraphs so that pages of contents move, to update the table of contents, right click anywhere in the table, down to update.