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add unnumbered chapters to your table of contents in latex

May 17th, 2007 by Lawrence David

i wanted to give my thesis proposal abstract a listing in the table of contents, but i didn’t want to give it an explicit chapter number. to achieve this, i prefaced by abstract with:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline{}Abstract}

\chapter*{Abstract}

my abstract.

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4 Responses to “add unnumbered chapters to your table of contents in latex”

1. on 26 Nov 2010 at 3:29 pm   azertyazerty

   Hi!

   So what should I do if I want to add an unnumbered conclusion (which is quite logical at the end of my report) ?

   Thanks!

2. on 07 Jul 2011 at 1:43 pm   shooter

   hi! past this code on your sheet
   \addcontentsline{toc}section}\protect\numberline{}Conclusion}
   \section*{Conclusion}

3. on 08 Nov 2011 at 7:44 am   Ayoe

   Hi!

   I find that pasting \addcontentsline below \chapter*{} gives the correct page number in the table of contents for the book document class.

   Thanks a lot =)

4. on 30 Dec 2012 at 3:48 am   djhurio

   Thanks a lot! This is the simplest solution I have found. I am using it like this:

   \chapter*{Introduction}
   \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Introduction}

   \chapter*{Main Conclusions}
   \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Main Conclusions}

   1) Putting `\addcontentsline` after `\chapter*` correct page numbering as @Ayoe mentioned
   2) I have removed the left indent