I have a Table of Contents. I would like the format to look something like this:
SECTION 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
These aren't the actual titles, and there are several more sections, but this gives you the idea. What I'm having trouble with is setting the tabstops correctly so that I can make the end of all the dots line up, and then a few spaces later, make all the numbers reliably line up.
I've been told there is some magic one can work with tabstops and margins, but as of yet my weak Word-fu has not discovered it. I just figured out what a section break is, which is a huge victory over my stubborn bottom of the page numbers -- they are now in proper format -- but these aligned page numbers are still eluding me.
Help, please?
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Ah yes, Word-fu. The easiest thing is to make Word generate the TOC for you. Insert -->Index and Tables.... --> TOC. But then, if Styles are not your friend, that's maybe not so easy. So the tab magic:
0. Before beginning, "Save As" a copy so that if you mess things up, you can revert to what you've got. ;-)
1. Select (highlight/drag mouse over) the text you'd like to align.
2. Go to Format --> Tabs.
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3. In the "Tab Stop Position" box, set a tab at 6.5 or 7", click the box/button for a a RIGHT tab, and click the box/button for a "dot" leader.
4. Click "Set." Then click "ok."
5. Go back to your TOC, and delete all the periods you put in between your section headings and the page numbers.
6. Once all periods are gone, click at the end of your section headings and hit the tab key. Your page numbers should now jump to the right side of the page with a dot leader in between. They will now all line up perfectly.
Um, this isn't really working so well because of AOL's 500-character comment limitation. Try looking <a href="http://mowabb.com/ai/archives/2004_03_07.html#001921">here</a> instead. And best of luck to you on this briefing thing!
Thankfully they are getting rid of the lame character limit.
Thank you SO much for all this information -- this is exactly what I was looking for. :) I really, really appreciate it.
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