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How do I create excell sheet tabs in word?

I have a word doc that covers many topics which I constantly add to it.  How do I create tabs, index, or sheet so I can quickly go to that topic?  

For ex, let's say my word doc is everything I know about cars and it's 10 pages long.  Now I want to open it up and quickly find the section on Engines.  Is there a way to add tabs at the bottom similar to a "new Sheet" in excel?  So when I open Word I can see all my tabs and quickly access the one I want.

Word does not have tabs.

Instead, you can create a table of contents with links to the chapters/sections of your document. See Insert a table of contents

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Hi Eric

You can create Links and Name the Link Name as similar to the Excel Tabs name.
And Place the Link In this Document to show the content's Headings.


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I tried Ctrl F to find words but it's too time consuming.  In my example, "Engine" may be mentioned 50x in many parts of the doc. I need a way to quickly go to the Engine chapter when I'm in that doc.

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Hi Eric

You can use Table of Contents

Set Headings 1 or 2 or any heading numbers for all your chapters.
Insert Table of Contents (select the Automatic)

Click View Menu and choose Web Layout.

Now when you hold control Key and click each heading it moves to the relevant page directly.

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Although a TOC will do what you ask, if you have applied heading styles to your section titles, you can also use the Navigation Pane, which can stay open at the side of your document all the time. Clicking on a heading in the pane will take you to it. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-navigation-pane-in-word-394787be-bca7-459b-894e-3f8511515e55. What that article doesn't say is that you don't have to access the View tab to turn on the Navigation Pane. If you press Ctrl+F, the pane will open to the Results (search) tab, and you can then switch to the Headings tab.
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