Personalizing Table of contents

Question

I want to make my table of contents to have the words "Chapter", "Title" and "Page" written in uppercase, like "CHAPTER", "TITLE" and "PAGE". My document class is Book. How can I do it?

Please provide additional information (e.g. the document class). A minimal working example would be even better. — lockstep, May 14 '11 at 09:52
Solution found, I simply edited the style file of my document class! Not a very good idea, but it worked :D — Sérgio, May 16 '11 at 04:02
Rather than editing the question title as "[SOLVED]", you should write a separate (self-)answer. — lockstep, May 16 '11 at 05:21
A better option might be to use the titlesec package as described in this question about the table of contents — Peter Grill, Jul 18 '11 at 00:51

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '11 at 21:21

For customizing the table of contents, you could use a dedicated package, such as

If you would like to change certain commonly used names, check if they are stored in a macro. There are common macros such as \chaptername, \partname, etc. You could redefine it, which would allow consistent use through the complete document, such as

\renewcommand*{\chaptername}{CHAPTER}

If you use the babel package, which is very recommendable, you should do it a bit differently, using the \addto command, otherwise babel would override your definition. Here's a complete example for you:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto{\captionsenglish}{%
  \renewcommand*{\chaptername}{CHAPTER}
  \renewcommand*{\pagename}{PAGE}}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Introduction}
See \pagename~1.
\end{document}

In your comment you said that you changed the style file. I would never do that since it would have effect on each other file which uses that class or style, respectively. Instead, I would use \renewcommand or \renewenvironment in the document preamble, copying the original definition there and making my changes - just in my own preamble, leaving the class/style untouched.

Personalizing Table of contents

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