Turn a Table of Contents into Binder Tabs
If the document already has a table of contents, the tab set already exists — it just needs the page numbers scraped off. Paste it below; we clean it into one tab title per section, suggest the right cut, and open the whole set in the designer with live pricing. Free, no signup, and your text never leaves the browser.
Every title lands on its own tab, ready to price live — nothing is saved or sent anywhere until you order.
Three ways to never type your tabs
This converter is one of three: paste a table of contents here, describe the binder in plain words and the AI designer builds the set, or photograph an existing divider set and we read the tabs off the photo for an exact reorder.
Common questions
- How do I turn a table of contents into binder tabs?
- Paste the table of contents into the converter above — straight from Word, Excel, Google Docs, or copied out of a PDF. It strips page numbers, dot leaders, and chapter numbering automatically, leaving one clean tab title per section. Edit the list if you like, then open it in the designer: every title lands on its own tab with live per-set pricing.
- What formats does the converter understand?
- Anything that pastes as text: Word and Google Docs tables of contents, Excel column copies, PDF text selections, and plain typed lists. It handles dot leaders (Introduction....12), tab-separated page numbers, bullets, indented sub-sections, and Chapter/Section/Part/Appendix numbering in Arabic or Roman numerals.
- Should tabs match the table of contents exactly?
- Tab wording should usually be shorter than TOC wording — a tab reads at a glance, so "Safety Procedures" beats "Chapter 3: Safety Procedures and Emergency Protocols." The converter removes the numbering for you; trimming long titles down is worth a minute in the editable list. Keep the ORDER identical to the document so the binder and its contents page agree.
- What if my document has more sections than fit across one page?
- Extra tabs step into a second staggered bank automatically — 12 sections in a 1/5 cut is two full banks of five plus a bank of two. The tool suggests the cut with the fewest banks for your count, and the designer lays the banks out visually so you can see it before ordering.
- Is this free? Do you keep my document?
- Free, no signup, and the parsing happens entirely in your browser — the text is never uploaded or stored. Nothing leaves your machine until you choose to open the set in the designer, and even then only the tab titles carry over.