Reply To: Specific formatting TOC

I’ve done this before using a combination of right indent and whites space characters, but usually only in TOCs that don’t include tab leader dots.

First, set up the right indents based on how much white space you want between your text and your page number. If you want 1 inch of white space, set the Right Indent to 1in and the Last Line Right Indent to -1in. This will push all your text over except the last line which will extend to the edge of the frame. (This is not quite done because this allows more than just the page number and tab separator to extend to the edge of the frame.)

Second, in the TOC settings, add a few em spaces before your tab character in the TOC page number separator (the number of spaces depends on how much white space you need). So your separator would be something like ^m^m^t. The em spaces should prevent any text from extending into the white space. But, tab leader dots can’t be applied to the em spaces, so if those are necessary this method may not work for you. It’s possible you could use the right indents for a partial solution and then add soft returns where it doesn’t quite work out. It’ll still be some soft returns, but it should be a lot less.