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saxtonstudio
Inspiring
September 24, 2024
Question

How to Align Page Numbers in the Table of Contents

  • September 24, 2024
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What am I doing / not doing to cause the page numbers to fall on the second line? I seem to recall something about adding tab settings...? (Another thread I saw suggeated "right indent tab" after the Between Entry and Number, but that didn't change things.) Two screenshots attached for reference.

 

 

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Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 24, 2024

Do not use a tabulator and a stop for those numbers, use a right aligned tabulator instead. When you write you would write shift-tabulator, in the dialog of the toc setup it is represented with a y instead of the t. ^t > ^y. 

saxtonstudio
Inspiring
September 25, 2024

I must be doing it wrong. When I put in ^t > ^y I got two lines before the number (see screenshot). I'm not using the tab function at all - trying to set it all up in the TOC style box. 

 

ALSO, two more related issues:

1. TOC comes in indented. I don't want that. 

2. Style used for chapters (which drives the TOC numbering) has an 18 pt. leading, and that is being translated here so I have to manually bring up each line. Not a smart way to do this I'm sure!

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
October 3, 2024

Hmmm... I'll have to read through to see what we did before. (BTW, thank God for you guys. This makes my head spin.) 


@saxtonstudio

 

Sorry, I've mixed up your problem with someone's else:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/last-toc-entry-hidden-in-overset-text/td-p/14887749