[Holladays]

When there is an item in the TOC that is less than 5 characters in length,
the page number won't allign right. It alligns left with the item name. For
example:
Box5
when what I want is
Box............................................... ............5
which is how the items that are longer than 4 characters are shown.
Any suggestions?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As has been explained before, this is caused by having a tab stop or hanging
indent just to the right of the short entries. You can either remove the tab
stop (or move the hanging indent) or (if headings in the document are
left-aligned, add a tab character to the end of the short ones and add the
\w switch to the TOC field to preserve the tab characters.

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

"Holladays" wrote in message
...
When there is an item in the TOC that is less than 5 characters in length,
the page number won't allign right. It alligns left with the item name.
For
example:
Box5
when what I want is
Box............................................... ............5
which is how the items that are longer than 4 characters are shown.
Any suggestions?

[Holladays]

I went in to "paragraph" and to the tabs button and cleared the 0.5" and 1"
tabs, leaving the 6.5" and that worked (just in case somebody esle can't find
the previous explanations)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As has been explained before, this is caused by having a tab stop or hanging
indent just to the right of the short entries. You can either remove the tab
stop (or move the hanging indent) or (if headings in the document are
left-aligned, add a tab character to the end of the short ones and add the
\w switch to the TOC field to preserve the tab characters.

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

"Holladays" wrote in message
...
When there is an item in the TOC that is less than 5 characters in length,
the page number won't allign right. It alligns left with the item name.
For
example:
Box5
when what I want is
Box............................................... ............5
which is how the items that are longer than 4 characters are shown.
Any suggestions?

[Holladays]

How do I keep the document from putting them back?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As has been explained before, this is caused by having a tab stop or hanging
indent just to the right of the short entries. You can either remove the tab
stop (or move the hanging indent) or (if headings in the document are
left-aligned, add a tab character to the end of the short ones and add the
\w switch to the TOC field to preserve the tab characters.

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

"Holladays" wrote in message
...
When there is an item in the TOC that is less than 5 characters in length,
the page number won't allign right. It alligns left with the item name.
For
example:
Box5
when what I want is
Box............................................... ............5
which is how the items that are longer than 4 characters are shown.
Any suggestions?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need to make the change in the TOC style (which should happen
automatically if the TOC styles are set to update automatically, as they are
by default), but see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCJasonTabs.htm

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

"Holladays" wrote in message
...
How do I keep the document from putting them back?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

As has been explained before, this is caused by having a tab stop or
hanging
indent just to the right of the short entries. You can either remove the
tab
stop (or move the hanging indent) or (if headings in the document are
left-aligned, add a tab character to the end of the short ones and add
the
\w switch to the TOC field to preserve the tab characters.

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

"Holladays" wrote in message
...
When there is an item in the TOC that is less than 5 characters in
length,
the page number won't allign right. It alligns left with the item
name.
For
example:
Box5
when what I want is
Box............................................... ............5
which is how the items that are longer than 4 characters are shown.
Any suggestions?