[Martha]

I use tables of contents a lot for long documents. Are you using the built-in
STYLES for headings, for example is Fruit heading 1? I always click on
Options before generating the table to see what's been selected automatically
and what level it has been assigned.

After the Table of Contents has been generated, I look at the STYLE that
word has assigned to each level, for example TOC 1, TOC 2, and I make
indentation adjustments if needed. Usually I need to move the page number
more to the left. After adjusting, I modify the style so the changes will be
permanent for the document if I generate a new Table of Contents.

So far, that is working fine, even in the new very buggy (IMHO) Microsoft
Office 2008.

"Suzanne" wrote:

Please help before I lose my mind. I have created a Table of Contents that looks just fine except that a few of the entries do not line up correctly. For example, I have Fruit. Under that are 1. Apples, then A. Delicious B. Macintosh and C. Granny Smith. The table lof contents looks like this:
FRUIT
1. Apples
A. Delicious
B. Macintosh
C. Granny Smith

Everything is aligned properly in the body of the document. What would cause those extra spaces? I can take out the spaces, but when I update the table, it goes right back to the bad format. Can anyone help?

[Stefan Blom]

Suzanne,

See if adjusting the first tab stop position (for the text following the
paragraph number) of the appropriate TOC style helps.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Martha" wrote in message
...
I use tables of contents a lot for long documents. Are you using the
built-in
STYLES for headings, for example is Fruit heading 1? I always click on
Options before generating the table to see what's been selected
automatically
and what level it has been assigned.

After the Table of Contents has been generated, I look at the STYLE that
word has assigned to each level, for example TOC 1, TOC 2, and I make
indentation adjustments if needed. Usually I need to move the page number
more to the left. After adjusting, I modify the style so the changes will
be
permanent for the document if I generate a new Table of Contents.

So far, that is working fine, even in the new very buggy (IMHO) Microsoft
Office 2008.

"Suzanne" wrote:

Please help before I lose my mind. I have created a Table of Contents
that looks just fine except that a few of the entries do not line up
correctly. For example, I have Fruit. Under that are 1. Apples, then A.
Delicious B. Macintosh and C. Granny Smith. The table lof contents looks
like this:
FRUIT
1. Apples
A. Delicious
B. Macintosh
C. Granny Smith

Everything is aligned properly in the body of the document. What would
cause those extra spaces? I can take out the spaces, but when I update
the table, it goes right back to the bad format. Can anyone help?