Table of Contents Problem

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Ross Payne

I'm working on a document in Word 2003. It has a table of contents generated
from headings. Each entry is supposed to have the Article number followed by
the title of that Article followed by a dot leader and then the page number
at the right margin. The problem is that with any entry that is smaller than
about 8 characters, the dot leader doesn't show up. It looks like:
Article IV Business 31 [I can see a tab formatting mark right after
"Business"]
whereas it should look like:
Article IV Business
...........................................................................................................31
Any ideas? Thanks.

Ross Payne
 
You've got a tab stop (or hanging indent) just to the right of these short
entries, so the tab for the page number is stopping there.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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There was a hanging indent at 1.25" in the style for TOC2. Once I took that
out of the style, the problem was fixed. I don't know how the style got
changed . . . but that's beside the point. Thanks,

Ross
Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
You've got a tab stop (or hanging indent) just to the right of these short
entries, so the tab for the page number is stopping there.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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so
all may benefit.

Ross Payne said:
I'm working on a document in Word 2003. It has a table of contents generated
from headings. Each entry is supposed to have the Article number followed by
the title of that Article followed by a dot leader and then the page number
at the right margin. The problem is that with any entry that is smaller than
about 8 characters, the dot leader doesn't show up. It looks like:
Article IV Business 31 [I can see a tab formatting mark right after
"Business"]
whereas it should look like:
Article IV Business
............................................................................
..............................31
Any ideas? Thanks.

Ross Payne
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