Changing Table of contents direction in word 2010

After you create the TOC in word:

  1. Select the text in the table, and right click on it.
  2. Choose Paragraph from the menu.
  3. In the General sector under the Indents and Spacing tab, choose Direction: Right-to-left.

This worked for me.


  1. Select the table of contents
  2. Navigate to Layout -> Page Setup -> Layout
  3. In Section -> Section Direction Select Right-to-left.

This worked for me on Microsoft 365.

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I have done this multiple times and it works. This was suggested by asibahi in a comment to the answer by Mohmad El-Yamani but it was never in a answer, so credits go to asibahi.

When I tried the answer by Mohmad El-Yamani to choose Right-to-left in the Paragraph menu, it worked more or less OK, but there were some indentation problems and when I updated the table of contents, it changed back to Left-to-right and I had to change it again.