Can you attach a copy of your document to a post with the headings & TOC (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab. I'll then be able to give more specific advice.

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Paul Edstein
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I've attached a picture that might help. I did up a simple TOC with 3 levels, using only tab stops (which I've circled in red).

2nd level items in the TOC are aligned to the first tab stop by pressing 'Tab' once; 3rd level items are aligned to the second tab stop by pressing 'Tab' twice. (these are left tab stops and are in the first red circle)

After you type the name of your section, type your page number and tab it over to the 3rd tab stop (a right tab stop). You can fill in the space in between with dots, although you may have trouble lining the dots up. I recommend turning off the auto-correct option that changes three dots to an ellipsis "..." b/c it seems to affect the spacing of the dots.

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That's not the way to format a TOC. If the TOC text on a given line is long enough to wrap, your format will have the text intruding into the page # area. Neither should you be using tab-stops at the left, as wrapped entries will end up back at the left margin on the second line.

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Paul Edstein
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Fair enough...hadn't considered that. I wouldn't normally build TOCs manually...I'd just insert one. I was more just trying to demonstrate tab stops.