Word Table of Contents: How to Manually Align Page Numbers

For some, Word's tool for generating a table of contents page can be confusing or too much trouble for shorter papers. Here is a simple trick for aligning page numbers in a vertical line for a table of contents created in Microsoft Word.

[kaimueric]

Man, this is quite an archaic approach

[fionamcdonald]

Thanks David. This was driving me mad on my assignment. Will try your method. I love your accent and voice by the way. You sound just like Tom Hanks.

[sailbyzantium]

Wow. I learned something today. I was working on a modest table in Word dealing with revenues and expenditures--and I wasn't aware you could do a text box like that. Very handy! Got my numbers, with their decimals to align flush right while the text / subject headings were flush left. Thanks!

[jillday]

This was the most helpful video for what I needed to do, thank you! I will refer back to your tutorials when I need help again (and I definitely will)!

[jamig.]

I don't have the same text dialog box.
My 'layout box' only has in it:
Position
Text wrapping
Size

[ramachandranpovara]

I have been searching for this for a long time for creating question papers where I have to mention the marks for each question on the right side. This suits my requirement quite well. Thank you.

[SZAKSS]

Awesome it helped me to make a list of tables, in addition, to the the automatic Table of contents. I think it is an awesome methods, when we do not have too much data.

[oliviavongries]

Thank you! Worked well for my forty-page document.

[suzannedeb]

...awesome!...right timing...i got my table of contents well aligned...thank you for this sir!!!

[jesuswasacoolguy]

This is a highly manual way of doing things.

[JennyJardin]

Just drawing the line and aligning the "periods" did it for me. Thanks, but wonder if there is a special key/symbol that draws all the periods at once. By the way, I like all my numbers aligned right so the zero in the 10 is over too far to the right. (My table has numbers in the 100's column, too.) Thanks!

[omer]

This does NOT work with long documents because when you update table of content, you will not have accuare page numbers.I tried this and I know it very well.

[mnalaka]

Why did not try 'References' for making table of content ? This is not recommend for professionals..

[YyJester]

A very ghetto approach to bypass the dumb automatic feature of word. I can't setup my page numbers on the right when I create a manual table and the auto generated templates give me AIDS

[helenU]

I still can't get the numbers to align to leaders properly, I have too much space between the numbers even if I do the steps