Ok, so I played with things and am still not getting the results that I wanted. When I change the text in the table to a heading style, it did not show up in the navigation pane. It also changed the table, that was formatted to be two columns, into one column, just as I had previously reported.
I then tried to convert the table to text, but it converted the Heading Style to the Normal style.
There must be a way to make a list where the entries can be navigated through the navigation pane