auto-generated Table of Contents has poor formatting?

macropod · #4 11-02-2012, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by dylansmith

I want the page numbers to be in 1 straight row (whether it has subheadings or not) and have standard font size.

After manually editing the TOC, the page numbers don't look aligned at all.

Any idea how i can do this automatically next time with properly aligned text and same font size for all text in TOC?

Word's TOC field has different TOC styles that correspond with your different Heading Styles.

To get the page #s for a given level to line up correctly, simply position the cursor at the end of one of the mis-aligned lines and position a left-aligned tab stop where you want the number to align to. Depending on your existing TOC setup, that may simply entail dragging an existing left-aligned tab stop from where the number now aligns to the new position.

As for the font, simply change the font size to whatever you want.

Ordinarily, Word's TOC styles are set to auto-update, so that updating the formatting on a given entry should update all entries at that level.

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