TOC strangeness...

Wonder if anyone can suggest something...
Been working in a variety of Pages documents, using the TOC feature, which I love. All working great, but then suddenly (after I'd reduced the font size in one TOC style) the TOC stopped having the leading line from the Heading to the page number - although the tab stop is still there in the style (and this has happened on all TOC styles). Odder still, this effects other previously-created documents (where I haven't changed the TOC style) - and even if a document is opened in Pages on another Mac.
Any idea how this might have happened, and how I can get those nice leading lines to work again automatically?
Thanks in advance...

Hey -
Thank you very much for the reply... in the meantime I've sort of fixed it/worked out something... the page numbers stopped moving, and leading lines disappeared, because the tab stops were suddenly outside the right boundary of the pages. Moving them back within the width got everything back. Why this changed on all documents at once I have no idea, especially as I hadn't changed the default size or messed with the blank template while it happened (though I've been extensively customizing it since I started)... but either way it's helped me learn how that feature actually works, so I guess I'll put it down to fate... and thus deem it a feature
best
michael

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