With an index, finding topics in your Word document becomes a smooth scroll instead of a needle-in-a-haystack hunt.

Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.

You can add a table of contents in Word to make your document look more professional and well-developed. ... On the left side of the References toolbar, click on Table of Contents. 5.