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NikVetro
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April 24, 2019
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Left and Right align in InDesign TOC same time

  • April 24, 2019
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Hi,

Sorry to bother you all but i have a question

I have to make TOC from example formatting...but i cant find the way how to make right - left - right align  on the text on each row and have to be active TOC

Here I upload a screen to show the TOC I want to make.

Can you help me?

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Correct answer jane-e

Hi,

Sorry that i was not clear enough.

In the first screen i show that my chapter heading in the file is a just BOLD CENTER ALL CAPS text.

I have to take this Heding 1 style put in to TOC and somehow to add 2 tabs so i can format the align how i want.

In the second screen i show how to have to look in the TOC.

What i mean is:

Take the text PREFACE: DREAMS which is only BOLD CENTER ALL CAPS text.

and i have to make somehow:

tab Preface: tab Dreams tab pagenumber

I hope now is more clear the problem i have

Thank you if you can help me


Hi,

A couple of issues:

First, in your document, you have all caps, and in the TOC, you have Proper Case. The way to achieve this is:

  • in your document, type the heading the way you want it to be in the TOC
  • in your document, format the heading to be in all caps as part of the paragraph style definition
  • when you generate the TOC, it will appear as the text was typed, not how it was formatted.

Second, in your TOC, you have tab > bold text > colon > tab > bold text > tab > page number

  • Create a character style for the Bold
  • Apply the character style automatically through nested styles as I said above. Edit the paragraph style you are using for the TOC and go to the section for Drop Caps and Nested Styles. The Nested Styles has four sections
    Choose your character style “bold”
    In section 2, choose Up To
    In section 3, choose 3
    In section 4, choose Tab
  • This will assign Bold to all text up to the third tab, then the regular paragraph formatting for the style will apply.

Jane

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2019

Hi Nikolay:

You need to use 3 tabs, and set the 3 tab stops:

Set the TOC up like this:

Define 3 tabs: 1 right-aligned for the 1st column, 1 left-aligned for the second column and 1 right-aligned (with or without leader dots) for the 3rd column.

~Batb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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NikVetroAuthor
Inspiring
April 24, 2019

Hi,

Thank you....you are the best.

One more question....how to set the first word in Bold in the TOC. and this first word have to update automatic when i update the TOC

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NikVetroAuthor
Inspiring
April 24, 2019

To be more clear.

Here i will show you how the heading appear in the file

And this is how have to be automatic format in the TOC.

I wonder if there is a way to make this with one style

From Bold Center text to right-tab-left-tab-right text.

Is there is a way to make something like this?

Thank you

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