As Stefan says, the usual way to handle this is to add a right indent to the
TOC style to wrap the text short of the page numbers (which will still be at
the right tab, which will still be at the right page margin but outside the
paragraph margin). Another approach is to add the \x switch to the TOC
field; this causes the TOC entry to preserve line breaks in the original
heading.

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"srd" wrote in message
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Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen