Table of Contents Formatting

Question

My TOC appears in the following format: Active Directory 5
I would like for the page numbers to be right justified:
Active Directory...........................................................5
Anyone know how to do this? Please email here and at: [email protected]
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi, Reggie:
Regarding Tim's and Monica's suggestions:
To avoid right-aligned tab positioning problems resulting from the reference page text frame being narrower than the body page text frame, I always set the right-aligned tab-stop position (and other TOC paragraph-format properties) by working on the TOC body page. I manually insert a Tab character in a TOC entry, between the text and the page number, to move the page number to the right-aligned tab stop. When the position and other properties are right, I Update All, to lock in the format. Then, on the reference page, I insert a tab character in the paragraph prototype line, between the entry building blocks and the <$pagenum> building block, save the TOC, and regenerate it from its source file or book, to verify the operation.
I've avoided using the \t symbol, for the tab character, in the paragraph prototypes on the reference page because \t doesn't push the text to the tab stop as a true tab does. The tab character gives a better representation of the tab position, even though the building blocks aren't accurate representations of the width of the entry text or page number.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
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