Style problem with my TOC

I sucessfully created my first InDesign table of contents. WooHooo!
There is something I haven't been able to figure out. I would like the page number to appear on the far right side of the page, as apposed to being place right next to the entry. Also, I would like to have a traditional dotted line between the entry and the page number.
So far I haven't been able to figure this out. Is someone willing to direct me in the right direction?

In the style you create for the TOC listings (you should create a special style) you can set a right-aligned tab, and define a leader (the dots) if you like. but I much prefer to use a Right Indent tab. The metacharacter for that is ^y rather than ^t in the field for Between Entry and Number. The advantage of the right indent tab is that it always aligns on furthest right edge in the frame (minus any right indent applied to the paragraph) and adjusts with the frame if you change the frame dimensions.
Leaders and right indent tabs are a bit of a kludge, though (you have to set some other tab beyond the edge of the frame and assign a leader to it), but there's actually a better way to make the dots, anyway. Create a character style whose only attibute is to turn on an underline. I like the japanese dots as the stroke style -- they're more elegant than a period as a leader. You can adjust the weight and offset from the basline to suit your taste. I often add a thin space on either side of the tab, too to set the leader away from the text slightly -- also more elegant. That would look like ^<^y^< in the field, but you can pick all the characters from the field dropdown so you don't need to memorize.
If you use this method you don't need to set a tab stop, but you do want a nested style in the paragrpah style definition:
None (or some other character style) up to 1 right indent tab,
Your new underline style through 1 right indent tab,
another style for the page number if you like, through anything that won't appear before the end, or nothing at all after the underline style.

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