How to Insert a Right Indent Tab in InDesign (Includes Adding Dots)

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Learn how to insert the special type of tab that forces the text after it to align to the right. This is great for manually creating a Table of Contents. Details below...

Right Indent Tab from menu...
Type - Insert Special Character - Other - Right Indent Tab

Right Indent Tab keyboard shortcut...
Shift + Tab

To add dots between the content to the left and right of a Right Indent Tab, do the following...

Select the text.

From the menu choose...
Window - Styles - Paragraph Styles

From the Paragraph Styles menu choose "New Paragraph Style".

Give the paragraph style a name.

Activate "Apply Style to Selection".

Activate "Preview".

What is done in the Tabs section will be picked up by the Right Indent Tabs in the document.

Click in the area above the numbers of the ruler to insert a tab. The position and type of the tab are irrelevant.

In the Leader field, type in a full stop (period) and click in another field to commit that change.

If the dots are too close together, add at least one space after the full stop in the Leader field.
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For those of you wanting to automatically build a Table of Contents for a document, you might find this video useful...
Create an InDesign Table of Contents

MichaelBullo
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You get the MVP award of the day. Short and straight to the point! LOVE IT. Thank you!

darveyp
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This is so helpful!!! Thank you so much I’ve been trying to figure this out forever!!!!

moselattimore
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This is what I was looking for ! Thank you so much for this tutorial! 🥳

mr_drabi
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This is super helpful!! I looked everywhere how to do this

johnsobscura
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I was stuck not knowing how to do that on TOC. Thanks you a lot

BMikel
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Man you are fucking Awesome i most i like about your tutorials is just be on point and keep it short no long shitt stuff bla bla i already subscribed to you, doing good work keep on coming.

Maxcollz
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How do you control text width?
Let's say you add one more item to your list, but it is a 12 word long Title.
How do you control where it wraps so the text doesn't run into your page number.

tayloraldridge
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If you wanted the dots a different colour can you do this?

jamesoldman