Page Layout ⇒ Centered Headings for ToC, LoF and LoT

[CiC Limits]

I am trying to center and rename the title of my table of contents.

This is what I currently have.

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\chapter*{\Large\bfseries\centering ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}
\phantomsection

\newpage
\renewcommand\contentsname{\centering\Large TABLE OF CONTENTS}
\tableofcontents

I have successfully changed the size of the ToC title, but the problem is that "Acknowledgements" is centered while the ToC is not (still flushed left). I am also having the same issue with List of Figures and List of Tables

I have seen a previous post similar to what I would like to do, and was given

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\renewcommand{\printtoctitle}{\centering\Huge\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{TABLE OF CONTENTS}

Doing this, I get \printtoctitle undefined (I also tried \printcontentstitle).

I am assuming I can fix this by using this.

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\chapter*{\Large\bfseries\centering TABLE OF CONTENTS}

But how will i keep the functionality of the table of contents this way? Is it possible to do something along these lines?

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\renewcommand\contentsname{\centering\Large TABLE OF CONTENTS}
\tableofcontents  %(remove old table of contents title)

[CiC Limits]

I have found my solution (for possible future reference), although still open to opinions. Not entirely sure of what \makeatletter and \makeatother do, but it works for me.

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\newpage
\makeatletter
\chapter*{\Large\bfseries\centering TABLE OF CONTENTS}
\phantomsection
\@starttoc{toc}
\makeatother

\newpage
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\cftfigfont}{Figure } %to change label of '1.1' to 'Figure 1.1'
\chapter*{\Large\bfseries\centering LIST OF FIGURES}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF FIGURES} %to have in ToC
\phantomsection
\@starttoc{lof}
\makeatother

\newpage
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\cfttabfont}{Table } %to change label of '1.1' to 'Table 1.1'
\chapter*{\Large\bfseries\centering LIST OF TABLES}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES} %to have in ToC
\phantomsection
\@starttoc{lot}
\makeatother

[localghost]

Your method is definitely not the way to go. It violates (La)TeX's basic principal of separation of form and content. Furthermore the presented code fragments are not very helpful. A complete solution in form of a self-contained example document would be much better. Presumably you use some code from hyperref and tocloft, but you don't mention that. Hence your code, incorporated in a simple document, would fail.

It is much smarter and easier to use the titlesec package and let it format the unnumbered chapters. For corresponding ToC entries for the LoF and LoT you can use tocbibind.

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\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{blindtext}  % drop in actual document

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}
{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}
{20pt}
{\Huge #1}

\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\filcenter\bfseries}
{}
{20pt}
{\Huge\MakeUppercase{#1}}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables

  \chapter*{Acknowledgments}
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
    \blindtext  % drop in actual document

  \blinddocument  % drop in actual document
\end{document}

I would not recommend to do a formatting like this because different formats for chapter headings are not consistent.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten