Last Line Right doesn't seem to be working (FM 2017 v17.0.3.546

[QuintinSeegers]

I'm having trouble getting the Last Line Right property to work correctly.

In the TOC, I want the highlighted line to be 'wrapped' at 2cm from the right, with the page number still appearing in the correct place.

When I enter 2.00cm and -2.00cm in the Right and Last Line Right fields, as soon as I click Update Style or Apply, the Last Line Right resets to 0.00 cm. The text is also not 'wrapped'.

As a test, I tried setting the Right indent to 5cm  and the text is still not 'wrapped' 5 cm from the right. 

What am I missing?

[Winfried Reng · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I did not use this feature yet. When I check the documentation, it says:

Last Line Right must be smaller than the Right value.

Both values are counted from the right. This means that your -2 cm is not valid and is reset to 0. Correct.

When I see your screenshot, it says:

All page numbers have a tab stop at 15.55 cm right.

All paragraphs should have a right indent of 2 cm. I do not know the width of your text frame. I assume 16 cm. This means that the paragraphs would be indented more to the left than the position of the tab stop. That's OK, as the Last Line Right can define something different.

If you want that the last line ends at 0.45 cm (16 - 15.55) before the page margin, then you can enter this value as Last Line Right.

If you enter 0, then the last line will end at the width of the text frame.

As you have a tab stop at 15.55 cm, the last line cannot (or should not) end at the width of the text frame.

When I tested this, I got your behaviour:

Right 2 cm and Last Line Right 0 -> page number is further right than the tab stop.

It worked, when I entered Last Line Right 0.45 cm. Also the line wrapping worked.

Everything clear now 😉 ? Just change the Last Line Right to (page width minus tab stop).

Best regards, Winfried

[QuintinSeegers]

Thanks Winfried. That fixed it. Sometimes one just needs things explained a different way :-).