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How to Add a Table of Contents in Confluence (Long Requirement Pages)

How to Add a Table of Contents in Confluence (Long Requirement Pages)

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Add a table of contents to a long Confluence page in a few seconds. Confluence builds it from your headings, and readers click a heading to jump straight to it.

Step by step

Why a contents list

  1. Table of contents. Long pages are hard to read. A table of contents at the top lets readers jump straight to the part they need. Confluence builds it for you, from your headings.
  2. Use headings. It works from headings. This page has four of them. Goal, scope, out of scope, and people.

Add it

  1. Edit. Click edit.
  2. Slash command. The list goes near the top. Click in the opening line, press end to jump to the end of it, and press enter for a new line. Now type a slash, and table of contents. Press enter. Confluence lists every heading on the page, in order. Here it is. Add or rename a heading later, and the list updates by itself.
  3. Update. Click update.

Use it

  1. Jump to a part. Now the page starts with a list of its parts. Click a heading in the list. Out of scope. And the page jumps straight to that part. No scrolling, no hunting.

Recap

  1. Headings, slash, update. So, give your page clear headings. Type a slash and table of contents near the top, and update. Readers click a heading to jump to it. Subscribe for more Confluence tips for business analysts.

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