How to align a long title in a table of content so that it won't be over page numbers

Question

I'm trying to change the alignment of the TOC of this document in order to make a long title, which occupies more than one line, to break to the next line before they are vertically aligned to the page numbers. This is how it looks:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
sed do eiusmod tempor............................... 22

But I want it to be like this (first line is supposed to be justified):

Lorem ipsum  dolor sit  amet, consectetur  adipiscing 
elit sed do eiusmod tempor ..........................22

I can't seem to figure out how to fix it. Changing the right spacing also moves the page numbers.

Any solutions? Thanks.

Answer 1

This is possible. You have to manually edit the indentation and tab rules for the TOC style that you want to modify.

1. Open the Styles pane.
2. Right-click the style that you want to modify.
3. Click Modify...
4. Click the Format >> Paragraph...
5. In the Indentation section change the Right indentation level to the position where you want the text to wrap to the next line.
6. Click the Tabs... button.
7. Enter a tab stop at the position where you want the page number to be right-aligned (past the indentation position that you just set).
8. Set the Alignment to right.
9. Set the desired Leader character. (optional)
10. Click Add.
11. You may need to remove the previous tab position by selecting it from the list and clicking Clear.
12. Click OK.

Answer 2

Select the text. Right click. Select 'paragraph'. Put in values of indentation (say 0.5"). This will solve your problem.

Answer 3

For recent Microsoft (mine is Microsoft 365) there's a feature name distribute (Ctrl+shift+J) for more precise text distribution.