Getting subsection to list in table of contents in LaTeX

I made a 开发者_Python百科table of contents using \tableofcontents Each section is made using \section yet when I do \subsection it is not listed in the table. How do I get it to list there? Thanks.

Which document class are you using? I just tested it for article, and it works fine. In any case, try using this in the preamble:

\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}

Increase 2 if you want to list subsubsection, etc.

Add:

\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}

to the preamble.

See: http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/linux-unix/latex-setting-table-of-contents-toc-depth

@WhirlWind and @Steve_Tjoa got it and helped me too! One thing though, whatever you set the tocdepth counter to, you may also want to set the secnumdepth.

so i used

\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}

as suggested by @Whirlwind but then the subsubsection in my Table of Contents wasn't numbered. so I added the following to get it to work (thanks to the following link where i found the answer http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2351#p9197 )

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}