How to Start Page Numbering From a Specific Page in MS Word | Create a Table of Contents ⌨️

Step by step, learn how to add a table of contents into your document in Microsoft Word, have your page numbers start from a specific page (and/or beginning from the number 1), and use the styles feature using the application for Windows.

Whether you’re a student or a professional and you have a document that has lots of pages and sections, a Table of Contents (TOC) can make your document more readable, usable, and appear more professional.

📚Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:20 Formatting Headings with Styles Feature (to create table of contents)
06:40 Inserting Page Numbers (to start from a specific page)
09:20 Inserting the TOC

💡Tip: Before you can make a Table of Contents, you have to know how to use the Styles feature in Microsoft Word. Only built-in, embedded headings from this feature will show up in your automatic Table of Contents.

✅ Task 1) Add headings to your document using the Styles feature. Text that uses a heading is automatically included as part of a table of contents.

✅ Task 2) To add page numbers, click the Insert tab and select the Page Number option. Next, to have page numbers appear on a page other than the first page in your document, go to Header and Footer tab and check the box that reads Different First Page. To have page numbers appear after your Table of Contents, go to Layout tab, select Breaks and click Next Page, until you have your page numbers where you want them. To begin page numbers at 1, go to Insert tab, click Page Number, and select Format Page Numbers. When dialogue box appears, select Start At option and enter the number "0." Then, click OK.

✅ Task 3) Once headings are created, click into the References tab and insert a Table of Contents (located in the upper left corner).

💡Tip: If you make any changes to the document, you can use the References tab to update the Table of Contents, as well as the page numbers within the Table of Contents.

👏🏽 Now your document is easier to navigate, especially with the embedded hyperlinks! 👏🏽

Version: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2503 Build 16.0.18623.20178) 64-bit.

💻 Windows platform.

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⚠ATTENTION: The comments below are part of a class assignment, not an actual comment.⚠

1⃣Intro:
Nice work on this video overall, great tutorial, not much fluff or things to fast-forward through, no Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship (just kidding), just direct, to the point, and pretty easy to follow. Congrats on getting 2 subscribers and 6 likes! I am adding you as your 3rd sub and 7th like. 😁 It looks like people already are getting good use from your tutorial.

2⃣ Description:
Starting with the description, I enjoyed how detailed it is! I've noticed that when I watch a YouTube tutorial that is over 10 minutes long, unless I feel like I have the time in my day, I will run to the description box or the comments section to get a feel of the summary or timeline. (Against better judgement, I've even turned to YouTube shorts at the expense of my attention span! 😭).

I also like the use of emoji in each segment, it helps me visualize the flow of the description and the video before I even watch

If I may nitpick on the chapters, I would say less is more in the description, you don't need the parenthetical statements, in my opinion. The second chapter's title can be really short, such as "Formatting Headings." Even a "Conclusion" or "Outro" chapter at the end can help, too.

3⃣ Captions:
Great work using the captions, by the way. I'd say maybe go over the captions bit by bit if you're using auto captioning to make sure the captions say what you're saying. This suggestion is nowhere close to necessary, but perhaps in the future, you can get them translated into different languages to help more people! I've gotten some good help from YouTube videos made by people in different countries this way (such as India or Korea).

4⃣ Title/Thumbnails:
I like the academic type of title, however, if I'm looking at a video, I just might not necessarily read the whole thing. Plus, the sequence of tasks in the title seem out of order in in the name. With the broad range in general (I understand this is for a class), I would probably consider making this into a shorter series of videos (and maybe accompanying YT shorts?). Not to mention, if you're looking to make a title for YouTube, you definitely need do all caps for some of the words.

Examples:
- EASY MS WORD TIPS | Headings, Table of Contents, and Page Numbers ⌨
- ⌨ WORD DOCUMENT Headers, TOC, Numbering | FORMAT LIKE A PRO 😎

Also good work with making the thumbnail, it is pretty eye-catching. Other colors like, blue, green, and orange work well, too, as they are stark contrasts against the white site background and red logo (I saw this in a YouTube video somewhere, I just don't remember where).

5⃣Conclusion:
This was a good video, I think some minor tweaks and editing would really hone this video in and make it very useful. If you want to really improve its function, maybe after this assignment/portfolio, you can make this into a short video series, cross-referencing each video in the descriptions and that little "i" thing in the corner. Keep up the great work and keep up the video-making!

🅰 Nit-picking timestamps
- 0:23 Should say, "Let's jump into *it.*"
- 0:33 "styles" should be in quotes
- 0:34 Try to work this in Adobe Premiere (or an open source alternative), but have ways to visually mark where something is in the program, such as a red box outline, an arrow, a star, highlight, etc. I like that the cursor lights up, but sometimes a bigger visual may be needed, especially if you move your cursor quickly enough.
- 0:39 Should say, "...notice *how this* document..."
- 0:41 Should say, "doesn't have *any* page..." (last time I'm doing a caption check, see paragraph about captions above.
- 1:40 MASSIVE nitpick here: the clicking can get a bit distracting (my opinion only!!!), but what I think can easily remedy this is if you were to do the following: record yourself with raw audio, then write down what you say into a script. Record that audio separately (muting the original video audio) on a video editing program like Premiere, and edit that audio into something more crisp and mastered (this will take you into Audition). Additionally, you can use a different video editing software (Clipchamp, Open Shot, basically any free video editing program), and add audio that you recorded on an audio editor like Audacity (super popular free program that does a superb job of editing) to your video.
- 2:03 Understandable if something is time-consuming. A good way to cut the time down is just to jump or fade cut to the different headings, particularly unique headings (Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3), and have the rest prepped already. This also cuts down time on otherwise dead air.
- 3:51 I don't want to be "that person, " but technically the phrase is "floats your boat." (Sorry!!!!)
- 6:05 That caption's up for a while without actually hearing any words.
- 6:12 I feel like adding page numbers should have been the first thing you did, but no worries.
- 6:23 Wow, learned something. I didn't even think of using the blank page feature, usually I do the CTRL+Enter thing. 🤦‍♀ You just saved me a ton of time in the future! 😄🙌