How to create dot followers in Word 2003?

Question

I'm trying to create a table of contents in Word 2003 and I don't know how to create dot followers in front of the headings that lead to the page numbers on the right. What's the easiest way to do this? Here's kind of what I'm looking for:

Title Stuff Etc............................................105
     Subtitle Stuff Etc..................................107
Next Title Stuff Etc....................................110

and so forth. The titles are flush left and the page numbers are flush right.

How would I create those dot followers and make this whole format work?

? · Accepted Answer

That's called leader.  If you're using a Word Table of Contents field, check out Leader on the dialog box that sets up the field.

If you're doing the table by hand (I don't recommend it.  Page numbers have a habit of changing.), you can generate leader by hand this way:

1.	Right-click in the paragraph and select Paragraph.
2.	Click the Tabs button.
3.	In the Tab Stop text box, put the value of the right margin.
4.	Under Alignment, click the Right button.
5.	Since you want leader (left......right) between them, click the appropriate button in the Leader section
6.	Click the Set button.
7.	Click OK.

Now type each line, pressing the tab key in front of each page number.

Hope that helps.

How to create dot followers in Word 2003?

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