Re: toc leader dots

Subject: Re: toc leader dots
From: "Darlene Boyle" <darlene_boyle -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:31:00 -0700


Are your Appendix names aligning with different tab stops? This might happen
if the phrase "Appendix B - " (for instance) is even sligntly longer than
the phrase "Appendix A - ".

Just a guess from a newbie. HTH

Darlene Boyle
darlene_boyle -at- hotmail -dot- com


"Sean Hower" <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote in message
news:166026 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm in Word 97 SR-2 running Windows 2000.
>
> I have a group of several appendices, each autonumbered using an
"appendix" style. The format of each appendix title is:
> "Appendix A - Name of Appendix"
>
> I'm autogenerating my toc, and including the appendices in the toc. Word
is doing two things with the appendix titles:
>
> Appendix A - Name here ................ #
> Appendix B - ...................Name here
> #
>
> why???
>
> I've reapplied styles.
> I've checked the length of each title, there is no pattern.
> I'd like to get this thing working on its own, because it's a pain to keep
manually fixing the toc everytime I regenerate it. Any thoughts?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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