How to Align Page Numbers in the Table of Contents

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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

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.

saxtonstudioAuthor

Inspiring

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!

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Kristine36699573qutq

Participant

I use the means of nested styles, character styles with dotted strokes and last line right intend.

It might help you, I have created a book and this TOC

https://www.dropbox.com/t/XG5hVG9IBM15JHBl

Hi Willi. I came across this answer while looking for something unrelated and was wondering how you set up your guides for this book. I know this is probably not the correct way to inquire about this, but wasn't sure of the correct way. I am just learning about setting up grids in InDesign and haven't seen anything set up like this. Particularly the different guided inside the text box and non inside the header/footer. Thanks!

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