Table of Contents Formatting

Hi Barb, I successfully use the hanging last line right indent option for all of my Table of contents, Table of figures etc. However, I am currently working on a document where one single entry in the List of figures, is ignoring the indent (see Figure 9 below). Do you have any ideas? I've tried every possible solution such as editing the styles, trying different indents etc but can't get this particular entry to break. It currently has a 25mm, -25mm indent set. Note that if I add an additional word to the Figure title, it works perfectly, it's only with this exact amount of words it's ignoring the right indent. I hope that makes sense.

Okay, I see what you and Eugene are saying now. That certainly automates the issue, and is perfect for long generated lists, but maybe moreso for indexes than TOCs. At best, you'd have to go to most TOC'ed headings and use nonbreaking spaces etc. to get the break clean and balanced without a manual edit... or live with entries that had one word broken to the next line, etc. Oogly.

It's the usual tradeoff between a large amount of meticulous prep so that an action can be "automatic" — or accepting that the "last pica" is going to be a manual step. But both work.

I'm not sure that will work as intended, given that the tabbed page number has to be further over than the right indent.

It can be done with no page numbers (which isn't very useful) or if an index-style layout, with the number just spaced over from the end of the text, is acceptable. But unless I've missed something, you can't fold part of the text and still position the page number at the right margin (ish).