Learn MS Word Legal: Crowding Of The Page Numbering In Your TOC and TOA

This particular issue concerns both the TOC and the TOA. It is a common scenario but easily correctable. There are times when the text of your TOC and TOA is crowding the page numbers to the extreme right. Most often, an attorney will notice it and ask the operator to please clean it up so that it does not look so cluttered. 1. Some people manually go to the ruler and fix it by tugging the right margin toward the left for those entries that crowd the number. Each time that the TOA is updated, the problem resurfaces since it was done with direct formatting. So, what controls the text of the completed TOA or TOC in order to fix the problem for good. 2. For the TOA, the style associated with the completed TOA entries is called “Table of Authorities”. Do the following: 1.​ Either double click on the left hand side style tracking “Table of Authorities” or right click on the right hand side style panel where it says the name of the style “Table of Authorities”. 2.​ Under Modify, go to Format Paragraph and under Indentation “Right” make that 0.5. That will take all of the text of the Table of Authorities and will push it back towards the left an additional 0.5 thus making a "clear lane" between the Table of Authorities Text and the Page Numbering. 3. ​Look at the ruler when your cursor is in the TOA you will notice that there is a right tab in the ruler toward the extreme right. You just leave that as is. That right tab controls the positioning of the Page numbering. 4.​ Finally, it is very important to note that if your TOC (Table of Contents) has this same crowding problem, you will go about fixing it in the same manner by modifying the styles TOC 1 and TOC 2 in your completed Table of Contents and set the right indent to 0.5 just as you did for the TOA. Knowing these tips will get you in the habit of looking at the spacing of the entries and the corresponding page numbers. Training From An Inside Perspective www.advanceto.com https://youtu.be/VDXsjrm6QSA