How do you edit the TOC?

[Tyler Barwick]

I inserted a TOC. Now there's little section called Table of Contents. I click edit and I don't know where to go. I looked it up in the Wiki and I'm totally confused. We just implemented it at my work and are forced to use it. Very little instructions. I have no clue what i'm doing

[Kathy Kurth]

When you are editing the page, there should be a little box labeled "Table of Contents." Select it and click Edit. That opens a dialog box where you can set all the options you want for your TOC. For descriptions of those options, refer to the help for your version of Confluence.

Note that a TOC is a mini-TOC just for the page it's added to. It will pull in the heading levels you indicate in the options. 

If you want a TOC that shows a parent page and its child pages, a better solution would be to use the Children Display macro. 

[omelvenymichael]

Hi Kathy, how do I add a section to an existing TOC? 

[Kathy Kurth]

If you use the macro to set up your page-level mini-TOC, it will automatically update itself based upon the headings that you've used on the page. In other words, you cannot just change the look of the text in the paragraph you're using as a heading, you must use one of the heading styles that are provided in the editor. You can tweak the format of the heading afterwards.

So, to answer your question... to add a section to the TOC, just create a new section on the page with a new paragraph that uses one  of the heading styles.