I might have asked this question before, but I didn't see it when I looked through my history.

When I update my table, one level gets a long series of periods after the title, all the way to the page number.



How do I solve this? I want blank space there.

http://i.imgur.com/ImGuZxo.jpg

The dots are tab-leader dots. To remove them (or add them to the other lines):
1. Click on the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab.
2. Click on the ¶ symbol at the end of a line you want to change in the Table of Contents.
3. Right-Click and choose Paragraph>Tabs and choose Leader option 1 (None), then click OK.
4. Right-Click and choose Styles>Update (Style name) to Match Selection.

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Thanks, macropod.
Is there any way to make it retain all of my settings, including font and the tabs, when I update table?

That was what the last step - update style - is about.

For any given Table of Contents (TOC) level, there is a paragraph Style named TOC1 - TOC9. You can give those Styles whatever font, paragraph, tab, etc. attributes you want. Having done that, the settings will 'stick' when the TOC is updated.

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Paul Edstein
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