What software do you use, and which version is it ?

I use office for Mac - just bought it so guess it is the newest version? Dont have it with me at work though but I can check tonight...

I more or less did it "manually" and didnt use the featured tables of content - maybe it would have helped doing this but couldnt figure out how to designate the different titles then...

For each level, select a heading or better create yours. (i.e : My title A, My Title B...)

For beeing sure your applying a Heading that will appear in your table of contents. When your are in total visibility (showing non printable signs), there is a little square that appear to the left of your title.

Then, for each title, apply the corresponding style/heading. Select text, and clic on the corresponding style.

Once this is finished you are close to the end.

Click on menu: references, table of contents, insert table of content.

In the dialog box then you can choose how many level you want to show. Specify the options and then press OK.

Here is your Table of contents.

Still not sure how to get it to work though.... I have my format palet (or whatever it is called) and here I have the different typographies, I have managed to define the 4 levels and I have marked all the headers BUT I dont like the design of the table of content I get, is there somewhere I can change that???

It is a masters thesis in International Business (more within marketing)....

Since I am not using pages I will have to make this work instead.... thing is I do NOT like the templates and I cant figure out how to customize it....