TOC indentation

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Ravabelli

Whenever I update my TOC I have some lines (with
identical style to others) lose their indentation.

e.g. section A........................1
section B 2
section C........................3

Where the numbers above represent page numbers. I've
checked the styles and reset them to make sure they are
standard. Any help? It's driving me mad!
 
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Chad DeMeyer

Ravabelli,

Try this: Alt + F9 to display field codes. In your TOC field add a switch
at the end (separated from previous switches by a space): "\w"
Alt + F9 to display field results, then select the TOC and F9 to update the
field. Choose "Update entire table of contents". Does that fix it?

If it does, here is why: for some oblique reason, if this switch is omitted,
Word decides to add its own arbitrary tab sets to each level of a TOC,
REGARDLESS of how the TOC styles are defined. The "\w" switch effectively
suppresses this behavior, so each line in your TOC will tab all the way to
right-aligned tab set for page numbers as you expect.

Regards,
Chad
 
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Ravabelli

Chad

Thanks for the advice but this doesn't appear to have any
effect.

My TOC code is now: {TOC \O "1-3" \H \Z \U \W}

Cheers
Rav
 
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Stefan Blom

Have you tried to select the table of contents and then to press
CTRL+Q, which resets paragraph formatting (including tabs) to that of
the style definition?
 
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