Microsoft Word question...

Is there an easy way to add the periods after the Item on a Table of Contents page?

In other words, I want it to look like this:

Item Page

Item 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Item 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Is there a way to add those periods without just creating a bunch of periods?

Insert a right tab with leader dots at your right margin. Type your TOC info, type a tab, then type your page number. Hey presto!

Tab formatting is set under Format > Tabs in Word 2003. (You didn’t say what version you have.) You can also simply set your right tab and then double-click it to add the leader dots.

Use tab stops

-Highlight your page of items
-Go to Format -> Tabs
-Select the horizontal measurement of how far you want the tab/etc
-Select what character you want in between
-OK out and tab where you want the sapce

That worked! Thanks!

Word will do this automatically, so that spacing when changing fonts or adding to length is never a problem.

Document Elements => Table of Contents => Options => Formats

Classic, Modern, and Formal all automatically add periods between the words and the page numbers.

That’s looking at it from a Mac in Word 2011. It should be the same in PC Word 2010. All earlier versions had this, but I don’t know the exact path any more. Just go to Help for formatting a ToC.