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> Hi, I checked our graduate college's manual, I think they are

Here are some partial answers. You can change the name of the table of contents (and other section names) by using the commands:

\contentsname{Table of contents}
\figurename{Fig.}
(etc.)

Here is a list of the items whose names can be changed:

\abstractname
\contentsname
\listfigurename
\listtablename
\indexname
\chaptername
\figurename
\partname
\tablename
\appendixname
\bibname

If you're using the babel package however, you have to use commands like

\addto\captionsfrench{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table des
matie`res}}

where French language is used here.

You can also change the format of the sections by redefining them through a command like for example:

\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection%
 {section}{1}{0pt}{-3.5ex plus -1ex minux -.2ex}%
 {2.3ex plus .2ex}{\centering\normalfont\Large\MakeUppercase}}

Here the \section command was redefined to start a new section of name "section", level "1", with a 0pt indent, -3.5ex pre-skip (with some rubber lengths), 2.3 post-skip (with some rubber lengths), and that will appear centered, large and in uppercase. May I suggest that you get a LaTeX book such as the LaTeX Companion by Leslie Lamport, or "A Guide to LaTeX" by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly, in which all of this is described in much more details

As for having "Table of contents (continued)" on the second page of the TOC, I don't have any easy answer. Note that by issuing

\pagestyle{headings}

you will get a header with the current chapter name, thus providing the text "Table of contents" at the top of the second page of the TOC.

I hope this was useful to you.

Franc,ois Bouffard