Writing Business Reports / Report template instructions

Here is a sample report template using Styles so that it all looks good and a Table of Contents is automatically created. Feel free to download it and use it as a basis for your own report if you want. You can just copy and paste extra headings/subheadings wherever you need them and they’ll be in the same style as the one you copied.

To update the Table of Contents, click on the word Contents and it gives you the choice to update the page numbers or the whole table. If you click on the TOC, you can then CTRL + click on a heading or page number to go to that section automatically.

Make sure your cover sheet has the correct information on it for your class and is in the format that your lecturer wants.

You can change the information in the footers, add headers or change them to different styles.