Dot problem

Question

In the screenshot below, you see the lines of dots separating the phone numbers form the names? They can't be edited. I can't make them shorter or longer. I can only delete them altogether. I inherited this project from someone else and am editing it. The publication was created by a pro designer of far greater experience than myself.
I'm thinking he's used some trick to create a line of dots to exactly push all the phone numbers to the edge of the frame. Can anyone suggest what he has done here? Or explain how he's done it?
I have cropped out the ends of the phone numbers and the beginnings of the names to protect privacy but the phone numbers all line up exactly to the right and the first letters of the names all align perfectly to the left.

maxwithdax · Accepted Answer

These are called leaders and you can set them via tabs.

CTRL+SHIFT+ T to open the tabs box.

The LEADER box lets you put in the dot or the hyphen or whatever repeating character you want.

To remove them simply click on the tab marker (circled in red below) and you will see the dot appear in the LEADER box. Just delete the dot and the leader will disappear.

Hope that helps.

- Dax

maxwithdax · Answer

that is the wrong tab marker. you want the one all the way to the right. When you select the tab all the way to the right you will see the Leader box with a dot in it. Just delete the dot. Then everything will stay lined up but there will be no dot leader anymore.

The number in millimetres is the value for the placement of the tab itself.

You are in the right place though.

- Dax

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