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• • April 15, 2015 at 9:38 am #74659
    Jahrod

    Member

    I have a ToC where I have the page number before the entries. The default is for the page numbers to be left aligned, but I would like to have them centre aligned. Is this possible?

  • April 15, 2015 at 1:51 pm #74666
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    Set a Center Tab for the page numbers, and a Left Tab for the page description.

    

  • April 16, 2015 at 2:41 am #74707
    Jahrod

    Member

    Thank you, Colleen. This is exactly what I am looking for but I need something that doesn’t involve having to do this manually each and everytime I update the ToC. I was wondering if I could build it into my ToC style or build it into my character/paragraph styles using GREP? Any ideas!?

    • April 16, 2015 at 4:33 am #74711
      Chris Thompson

      Member

      Should be easy to set up in a Para style for the TOC listing.

      Chris.

  • April 16, 2015 at 7:11 am #74722
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Not really the same thing, but might have some insights:
    https://creativepro.com/how-can-i-align-double-digits-in-a-numbered-list.php

    Or you could convert the text into a table and center align that column.

  • April 16, 2015 at 7:33 am #74724
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Just been trying it out using a style for the TOC contents, you can put most of what’s wanted into the style, including the centre tab that Colleen suggested in post 2, but there seems to be no way to get the style to insert the leading tab mark needed before the page number itself.

  • April 20, 2015 at 1:44 am #74831
    Jahrod

    Member

    Thanks for all the help folks! So it seems there is just no way to make this fully automated. I really thought there might be a way to use a GREP style which adds a centre align tab at the beginning of the page number?

  • April 20, 2015 at 5:07 pm #74850
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    The Paragraph Style will have that centre-aligned tab, but you need to add a tab for each entry. It’s not automated, but you can Find/Replace (in Story) so each Paragraph Return has a Tab after it.

    Find: ^p
    Replace with: ^p^t

    Then replace all double Tabs: (to clean up if you already have tabs in there.
    Find: ^t^t
    Replace with: ^t

    Not sure how much this helps your project. The table idea may work better, or using the Convert Text to Table/Table to Text option, you can add a Tab to the first column, then convert back to Text.

  • April 27, 2015 at 2:04 pm #75008
    Jahrod

    Member

    Thanks for all the input everyone! Much appreciated.

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