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The TOC also will use a "." as a tab leader, please see Tab Leaders (on page 249) on
how to either change or remove this.

See Text Styles (on page 263) for more info on applying styles.

Updating a Table of Contents
As you update a document, adding and removing headings, you will soon need to update
your table of contents. To do this place the text caret anywhere in the table, right-click
and choose "TABLE OF CONTENTS" > "UPDATE". The table is updated, while preserving any
changes you made to the TOC styles.

Changing properties or removing a TOC
The right-click TOC context menu also includes a REMOVE option, for removing the table.
It also has a PROPERTIES option, which brings up the same dialog you used to create the
table. This allows you to change the properties of an existing table, for example to turn
page numbers on or off.

Synchronising text across multiple text objects

Sometimes you may want the same text to appear in multiple text objects and for those
objects to always have the same text, so that if one is edited they are all updated. You
can achieve this using LIVE COPIES if the only difference between the text objects is in the
way they are transformed (ie. only their position, scale, rotation or skew needs to differ).
See LIVE COPIES (ON PAGE 112) in the Object Handling chapter for details. In some
circumstances you can also use SOFT GROUPS to achieve text synchronization. See the
SOFT GROUPS (on page 101) section of the Object Handling chapter for details.

Tabs, Margins and Indents

Rulers
To adjust tabs, margins and indents you need to turn on rulers in your document.

To do this:

• Choose "WINDOW" > "BARS" > "RULERS" or right click a page and choose "SHOW
GRID/GUIDES" > "SHOW RULERS".
• Or press "Ctrl + (Shift) + R".
• Or press "Ctrl + L" (when not in the TEXT TOOL).
The enhanced text features will only appear on the ruler when you are using the
TEXT TOOL and when the text cursor is in a text story or the text object is selected
when in the TEXT TOOL.

In the TEXT TOOL when you drag the margins or tabs on the ruler, you get a temporary
vertical guide to make it easier to align the tabs or margins to objects elsewhere on the