How to create a navigational bookmark in Word 2013

Hi. I've created an MLA style paper using MS Word 2013 and want to create a navigational table of contents. However, I do not know how to bookmark a single page in the contents that does not use a heading style.

 

So, I know how to create a table of contents using Styles. I use Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 all of the time, and it's very useful. Those headings appear as a navigational table of contents when View > Navigational Pane is selected, and they are also used to automatically create a table of contents. I can do all of that.

 

What I don't know how to do is create an item in the navigational table of contents that does not link to a style heading. My MLA paper has a Title Page, the essay, and a Works Cited page. I have applied a Styles heading to the Title Page and to the Works Cited page by simply selecting the respective text and applying a heading style. The name of the selected text appears in the navigational table of contents, and that's fine.

 

My question is how do I add an item to the navigational table of contents without applying a style heading to specific text? If I select the first few words of the essay and apply a style heading, that's what will appear in the essay. I don't want that. I want a title such as "Essay" to appear.

 

Thanks

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Word has two different ways of picking up text for the table of contents, and you can mix them in the same document and the same TOC.

The way you already have is to pick up heading styles (actually, the outline levels associated with those styles).

The other way, which is turned off by default, is to place TC fields in the document and add a "switch" to the field that creates the TOC. This method can create entries in the table of contents that does not appear in the visible document text.

There are two steps to adding TC entries:
  1. In each place in the document where you want a reference to point, insert a field of the form  { TC "text for TOC entry" \f }. Because all TC fields are automatically formatted as hidden text, the preferred way to create one is to type the field code (from TC up to and including \f), select that code, and press Ctrl+F9. If you don't have hidden characters displayed, the field will disappear.
  2. Go to the table of contents and press Alt+F9 to display field codes. The code will look like {TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u}. Insert a space and the characters  \f  after the \u. Press Alt+F9 again to collapse the code, and press F9 to update the table -- choose to update the entire table.
The text from the TC fields will appear in the table, but not in the document text. Clicking one of those entries will move the cursor to the location of the corresponding TC field.


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