Law Students

Appellate Brief Time: Dot Leaders in MS Word for Mac

By Timothy Lee, Jr

At some point in your law school career you’ll likely have to write an appellate brief. For me, that time is now. While your instinct is probably to just hit the period key until your page numbers on the table of contents appear lined up, if your writing professor is anything like the ones around here, that’ll get you a loss of 2 points. With the 1st year curve generally tight, every point matters! So here’s how to create dot leaders in Microsoft Word:

Go to Format -> Tabs

Type 6″ (or other appropriate measurement) in the Tab stop position box

Under Alignment click Right

Under Leader click 2

Make sure you click Set at the bottom left and verify that 6″ is now in the box.

Click OK

Full post as published by Mac Law Students on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).