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Facharbeit: Table of contents

This page was translated from German with AI. It has not been checked by a native speaker. Original page in German

The table of contents is created automatically from the headings – with numbers, dot leaders and page numbers. You only have to update it when something changes, at the latest before handing in.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German) 📝 Übungsdatei (.odt) 📝 Übungsdatei (.docx)

The video

In the video you see LibreOffice in the browser. The orange frame always shows where you click next. In other word processors the menus have slightly different names; the steps are the same.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:20 Inserting the table
  3. 1:17 Updating
  4. 2:12 Summary

The most important points

Requirement: all headings have heading styles (part 3). Then you insert the table under References › Table of Contents (Zitate › Verzeichnis) and limit it to three levels.

The finished table with chapters, indented subchapters and page numbers.
The finished table with chapters, indented subchapters and page numbers.

Updating

The table does not change by itself. After changes: cursor in the table, References › Update Index (Zitate › Index aktualisieren) – or Update All (Alles) for all tables and fields.

The new subchapters 4.1 and 4.2 appear in the table only after updating.
The new subchapters 4.1 and 4.2 appear in the table only after updating.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). If there is a practice file, you download it above and work in your own word processor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

The worksheet – Page 1
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Try it yourself

Task

A chapter is missing from the table of contents although you updated. What is the reason?

Show solution

The heading has no heading style; it was only made bold and big by hand. Assign the style, then update once more.

Keep learning with a language model

You are my teacher and help me with my Facharbeit. I have inserted an automatic table of contents. Ask me three questions about when and why it has to be updated, and wait for my answer each time.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in LibreOffice (in the browser, with Collabora Online), which checked after every step that the setting was really saved. The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.