Is it possible to set Microsoft Word to display some text left-aligned and other text right-aligned on a single line? Here's an example of what I mean:

| Chickens, turkey and duck               30 |
| Cows                                   240 |
| Pigs and boar                           83 |
| Sheep                       Not applicable |

where the vertical lines denote the sides of the page.

The full justify option won't work because I don't want anything in the middle of the lines. The table of contents option has the formatting I want, but only supports page numbers, which does me no good.

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No longer using Word, so don't remember correct wording there, but you can add positional tab, and set it later as aligned to right. Just put it where the right margin is placed to achieve what you want. You write then left-aligned text, tab, right-aligned text. – przemoc May 5 '11 at 23:59
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Yes!

1) Make sure you can see the ruler at the top of the page

2) Click in the ruler to place a tab marker and then drag it over to the right hand side of your page.

3) Now double click on the marker and change the alignment to right.

4) Now when you press TAB while typing on that line, instead of just indenting your text a bit, you can type text aligned to the right of the page.

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