Hello and welcome to this final video on the series on formatting your thesis or dissertation
with the American University template.
In this video we will look at creating a table of contents,
as well as lists of tables and figures.
So toward the top of the template, you'll see the pre-formatted options here
for the table of contents.  
You can follow the written instructions as well, but I'll just delete those here
since we're looking at a visual example.  
There are three types of table of contents that you can choose from:
one with just chapter titles, and then the other ones have different level of subheadings included.
So after you choose the one that you want, or if you want to
preview them, right click on the one that you want,
or on a Mac, Control+Click, and choose Update Field,
and you will see the table of contents generate for you.
A little bit of extra formatting will make this look a bit nicer,
but before we do that, I'll just show you the preview for the other ones
To get rid of that, you can do undo it with Ctrl+Z,
or Command+Z on your keyboard, or use the Undo function on the Home tab,
and then you can preview the next one and see how that might look.
And you can undo that and preview the third one.
And of course it'll look different with your headings, so you'll get a better sense of which one you like best.
And remember that you should be doing this step only after you have gone through and formatted
your entire body and appendices, and everything else
in your thesis or dissertation.
Otherwise, you might be missing headings from your table of contents.
OK, so, let's say, for the sake of example, we pick the one in the middle here,
and this random bold heading is just because I had manually changed something
in the middle of the text, but that you shouldn't happen to you. If it does, you can always remove it.
OK, so, these preliminary pages are all set for you.
You shouldn't have to do anything there.
Here to make this look a little bit nicer, you might want to add the word 'chapter'
and then remove it here to avoid some redundancy.
You can hit Ctrl+H on your keyboard, or use the Replace function from the Home tab.
to replace the word 'chapter' and the space that follows it
with nothing.
And just go through.
Get rid of those. 
The last one I always do manually to avoid the page jumping down.
And then you can remove the space here, hit the Tab key.
And do that for the others. You can also do that with the  
You could also do that with the Find and Replace with two spaces,
and replace with a tab if you wanted to.
We'll just do it like this for now.
And it's a nice lay of lines. And you could do the same thing with the appendices if you wish.
Again, you could do the Find and Replace, where you could just double click and remove the words this way.
And add your tab space.
And everything is nicely aligned. Of course, if you don't have appendices, that won't show.
and,
if you need to update this moving forward,
for example, if you format your thesis or dissertation
before your defense, and after your defense,
your committee asks you to remove some sections or add some new ones,
you would just want to make sure you format those sections in the body, using the style tags, just as shown in the
video on introducing your body text material.
And you can regenerate this table of contents anytime
by right-clicking anywhere in the list, choosing Update Field,
and, if you just want to update the page numbers,
for example, if you don't have any changes to your section titles,
then you can just do that.
But if you have added or removed sections, then you would want to update the entire table,
and then you would have to repeat the process that we just did
with adding the word 'chapter,' if you're doing that,
and removing these redundancies.
OK, so that's how you do a table of contents.
The list of tables is...
Of course you would want to remove all the instructional text and the images from your document as well.
The list of tables, you would right click, Update Field,
Update Entire Table, and of course, this will show
with all of your tables, assuming you have applied the table title style 
to all of your table titles.
And to reduce some redundancy with the word 'table' repeating over and over,
you could delete this, 
and hit the Tab key there, and you'll have a nice alignment for each table title.
And the same thing can be done for the list of illustrations,
and this is generated based off of the style figure captions, so
as long as you have added the style figure captions to all your captions,
then that would generate. And one special note about the list of figures is that
you only want the actual caption here.
So if you have any explanatory material after the caption,
then if you just want the caption,
OK, that's how you do your table of contents and your preliminary list.
You should be all but done.
After you've done this, you might want to give a final scan of your document
for line spacing, table placement, things of that nature.
And you can always update your page numbers quickly
as a very last step after you do that, to account for any adjustments.
And, in that case, you would only want to update the page numbers.
And then if anything has moved around,
the list will adjust for that. And you would do that for all three for the list of illustrations tables
and the table of contents.
OK, so that's it! Hope these videos were helpful, and best wishes formatting your thesis or dissertation!
