

Below is a Picasa link to a hand-built TOC that I want to be able to create with the auto-bulid/auto-update TOC feature in MS Word as I extend such a document. I’d like to have multiple tab stops in a TOC in addition to the left margin and right page number – to left-align three other columns. I have a more complex problem with auto building a TOC. (The reason you set them to 1.5 cm is to allow for the extra space taken up by the extra numbers in the Heading 3 level.) Then set all the paragraph indentations to 0 cm and the left tab stops to, say, 1.5 cm. If you want something that looks like this: TOC 3: Paragraph indentation 2 cm, hanging 1.25 cm Tab stops 3.5 cm (left) and 16 cm (right).TOC 2: Paragraph indentation 1 cm, hanging 1.25 cm Tab stops 2 cm (left) and 16 cm (right).TOC 1: Paragraph indentation 0 cm Tab stops 1 cm (left) and 16 cm (right).You’ll need to modify the TOC styles so they are similar to these (all values in cm): In answer to Praveen’s question in the Comments, here’s how to set the various left alignments. Check everything’s as you want it make further modifications as necessary.

Click OK when you’re asked to replace the Table of Contents.When you’re finished, click OK to close the Style window.

17 cm) for the right tab stop position for each.

Word 2003: Select Insert > Reference > Index and Tables from the menu.Click once anywhere in the Table of Contents.The process for doing this in Word 2003 and Word 2007 is similar. There are probably a couple of ways of adjusting the right tab position, but here’s a method that works for me. a dotted tab leader from the TOC entry to the page number on the right, which you want to preserve.changed the page margins for the document - but now the right-aligned tab doesn’t extend to the full width of the new page margins (let’s say the current right-tab setting is 13.5 cm but you want it to be 17 cm).an auto-generated Table of Contents (TOC) in your Word document.
