Table of Contents - No Tab Leader

[roguere]

The TOC created in my Word documents has a fault whereby short heading titles
will not automatically insert the dotted tab leader (see sample below). The
headings this happens to have the following attributes within the
automatically generated TOC:
Level 1 headings - Font: Times New Roman, Bold, 12pt - loses tab leader at
5chars
Level 2 headings - Font: Times New Roman, 11pt - loses tab leader at 7chars

Long Heading1 ...............................1
ShortHd2 3
Long Heading2 ...........................4
ShortHd1 6

The current fix for this is to manually enter a tab after the short heading
once the document is finalised but I am looking for a more permanent (and
automated) fix. TIA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is caused by having a tab stop in the TOC style that is to the right of
where the short heading ends. The tab character that should be going to the
tab stop for the page number is therefore going only to that tab stop
instead. The solution is to either remove the tab stop (if it's not needed)
or add a tab character to the end of the heading in the document (practical
only if it's left-aligned) and add the \x switch to the TOC field so that
tab characters are preserved.

If your TOC style has a hanging indent, then Word automatically places a tab
stop at that position unless you change the Compatibility Option that
governs this.