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Table of Contents Wizard Guide

for Confluence

Use Table of Contents Wizard to add a navigable table of contents, choose which headings appear, review heading changes before saving, and keep long Confluence pages easier to use.

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Table of Contents Wizard controls in Confluence edit mode

Installation

Install Table of Contents Wizard from the Atlassian Marketplace, then add the macro to any Confluence Cloud page that needs a table of contents, numbered sections, or consistent heading levels.

Add Table of Contents Wizard

  1. Edit a Confluence page.
  2. Add Table of Contents Wizard from the insert menu.
  3. It reads the current page headings and creates a clickable table of contents.
  4. Save or publish the page when the table of contents is ready.
Table of Contents Wizard default table of contents

Open the controls

Use the cog icon to show or hide editing controls. With the toolbar open, each heading can show Hide controls and its heading level.

Use the H1-H6 buttons to choose how deep the table of contents should go.

Table of Contents Wizard controls opened beside each heading

Choose a table of contents style

Choose the style that matches the page: bullets for a familiar table of contents, nested bullets for deeper pages, numbered links for documents that need section references, or inline links for a compact jump list.

The examples below show the table of contents after the editing controls are hidden.

Bullet table of contents layout without editing controls
Styled nested table of contents layout without editing controls
Inline table of contents layout without editing controls

Use numbered headings

Numbers shown only in the table of contents change the table of contents display only.

When comments, approvals, audits, or PDFs need section numbers that stay with the page, save the reviewed numbering into the page headings.

Numbers shown only in the table of contents
Preview before saving numbers into headings

Hide headings

When the toolbar is open, use Hide next to a heading to remove it from the table of contents.

Use Show All to restore hidden headings.

Hide controls beside headings in Table of Contents Wizard

Edit heading text

Use Edit to update the table of contents title and page heading text from one place.

These edits change the page headings, so you can review them before choosing Save or Cancel.

Editing Confluence heading text from Table of Contents Wizard

Preview heading-level fixes

Table of Contents Wizard looks for heading-level problems and previews the proposed changes. For example, if the first page heading starts too low, or a subheading skips a step, the preview shows the suggested fixes before saving.

Review the suggestions, then choose Save to apply them to the page or Cancel to leave the page unchanged.

Heading fixes available warning in Table of Contents Wizard
Previewed heading fixes before saving

PDFs

The published table of contents is included in PDFs. Its links continue to jump to the matching sections.

Numbers saved into headings become part of the heading text after saving, so they appear anywhere the Confluence page appears.

Troubleshooting

  • If a newly added heading is missing, refresh the table of contents after saving the Confluence page changes.
  • If a preview is not what you expected, choose Cancel and adjust the page headings before trying again.
  • If you only want numbered table of contents links, choose numbers outside text instead of saved heading numbers.