Microsoft KB Archive/58944

Word: Dots in Dotted Tab Leaders Not Spaced Preportionally

PSS ID Number: Q58944 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

When you create a table of contents and print it, the spacing between the dots in a dotted leader for a tab may differ from line to line.

This problem will occur if the tab is formatted with a proportionally spaced font. To make the spacing between the dots equal, format the tab with a monospace (fixed-width) font, such as Courier or Monaco.

To change all the tabs in a document or selection to a monospace font:


 * 1) Select a tab character to be changed.
 * 2) Change the font to a monospace font.
 * 3) From the Edit menu, choose Copy.
 * 4) From the Edit menu, choose Replace. (In Word 4.0, choose Change from the Utilities menu. In Word versions 3.x, choose Change from the Search menu.)
 * 5) In the Find What box, type “^t” (without the quotation marks) (or in Word 5.0, select Tab Mark from the Special list).
 * 6) Type ^c in the Replace With (Change To in Word 4.0) box (or select Clipboard Contents from the Special menu in Word 5.0 only).
 * 7) Choose the Replace All button to change all the tabs at once or choose the Replace button to change a selection of tabs. (In Word 4.0 choose the Change All button or the Change Selection button to replace the desired tabs.)

The space between the dots will be larger than when the tabs were formatted with the proportionally spaced font but the space will be the same distance between each dot on each line.

= MORE INFORMATION =

For more information about using tabs in an index, see page 550 of the version 5.0 “Microsoft Word User’s Guide” or page 375 of the version 4.0 “Reference to Microsoft Word” manual.

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