Weird right-alignment of text in Word 2007

[wildetudor]

Hi everyone,

I pasted some text from a document into a new document, formated all the
titles with my default Heading styles, then proceeded to create a Table of
Contents, which turned out to look very strange indeed. When the cursor is in
certain rows of the TOC, the horizontal ruler shows a text alignment that
seems to start from the right side of the page rather than from the left,
while in other rows of the TOC, the alignment is normal. Other things may
also be awry, such that overall, the whole TOC looks extremely messy, as can
be seen in this screenshot:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9301/screenshotbm.jpg.

I guess the document where the original text comes from must have had Hebrew
or Arabic as its language, this would explain the right-alignment, even
though when I pasted the text into my new document, I used Keep Text Only...

Can anyone think of a way to fix this? Many thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Stefan Blom]

I suspect that the issue is with the tab stops in (some of) the TOC styles.
Note that numbered paragraphs, by default, have a tab character after the
number (before the text of the paragraph). That tab character will also be
inserted in the TOC; the result will be that each TOC has two tab
characters: one after the referenced paragraph number, and one after the
text of the paragraph (before the page number). Try adjusting the tab stops
of the TOC styles. Since TOC styles are set to automatically update,
dragging the tab stops on the ruler, using the mouse, should work. (If one
or more tab stop is missing, you will of course have to add them first.)