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But at least I knew what it was called, so off to Google “Jason tab” to see what I could find. I tried some solutions suggested by members of the Austechwriter email discussion list, but didn’t find one that worked.
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And it’s only a temporary fix anyway, as it comes back next time you update the TOC! Not a satisfactory solution where you have more than a couple of entries that do this. The only way I could get the page numbers for these entries to scoot over to the right was to go to each entry and drag that 3.5 cm tab marker off the ruler (or, even easier, to press the Tab key between the end of the word and the page number). I cleared all tab stops, I added tab stops, I set hanging paragraph indents, I combined these in various ways, I howled at the moon (well, perhaps not that one!). Well, I tried every setting I knew of to find that 3.5 cm sucker. The only ones affected are those with short heading titles however, it’s not ALL the headings with short titles at TOC 2 level that exhibited this problem in the TOC - only those with a tab marker at 3.5 cm ( 2). You’ll notice that the page numbering has scooched over to the left for some of the TOC entries ( 1 in the screen shot above). But occasionally it has me beat, and the only solution is a ‘quick and dirty’ workaround that solves the problem right now, but doesn’t fix it permanently.Īn example is something called a ‘Jason tab’ - so named because it keeps on returning even after you think you’ve got rid of it… just like Jason in the ‘Friday the 13th’ movies (or whatever they were - I never watch gory or scary movies).įor example, here’s what the Jason tab looks like in a TOC: Usually I can fix it by fiddling with styles and/or settings. Every so often an automatic Table of Contents does something weird.