Move the last word of each line to be right aligned

I am creating an index for a big legal book. Each section and subsection and clauses are indexed.

These are copy pasted from the actual book and then, the page number is added.

It is a word file.

For example:

Topic number 1 ……… 1.34

Topic number 2 ……… 1.37

Topic with long text ……… 1.45

Topic no 3 ……… 1.48**

I am trying to accomplish like this:

Topic number 1 ……………………… 1.34

Topic number 2 ……………………… 1.37

Topic with long text ………………… 1.45

Topic no 3 ……………………………… 1.48

The page numbers right aligned.

Is there any way to do like this?

Any help is really appreciated.

Solution 1:

You can set a right tab, with a dot leader.

Then pressing the tab key before the page number gives you both the right-alignment and the dot leader.

Here is a temporary link to a document with these settings. These are paragraph formatting settings, best handled in a paragraph style. The TOC 1 style has this by default.

Here is a link to MVP Suzanne Barnhill's page on Setting Tabs.