Sharepoint: How to achieve "Table of contents" on custom/default web part pages

This is a default web part page with "Table of contents" web part loaded. I assume that you can see the difference between this and the default "TOC".















This is also a default web part page however, without the need for me to add in a "TOC" web part. How do i do it?


First:

Go to your site collection features (note: site collection, not site)


Second:

Activate the publishing infrastructure feature.

Third:

Click on site features.

Fourth:

Activate Office SharePoint Server Publishing feature

Fifth:

When you click on "Site Actions", you will notice that you will have more options, click on "Create Page".

Sixth:

Choose the template you need.

Seventh:

You will see this web part page (note that this page can be found in your "Masterpage gallery" which can be modified with Sharepoint designer, as i know most people do not have that many web parts in a single page, ironically, it's named "BlankWebPartPage". Not very "blank" in my opinion.

Eigth and final step:

Click on publish :)

And there you go, no more users complaining or asking "Hey, why is the table of contents so different in sharepoint??"

I hope that this post will help you lessen the amount of hair you will pull out of your head.