Update: I have just had an experience on the basis of which I am prepared to
offer a tentative analysis of this behavior. I had a document with 1" left
and right margins and a TOC. I changed the L and R margins to 1.25". The TOC
now extended half an inch into the right margin. I updated the entire table,
and the tab setting in the TOC 2 and TOC 3 paragraphs was updated. They were
in their default format. In TOC 1, which I had modified (by bolding it--not
by moving the tab stop), the tab setting was not updated. So it would appear
that *any* modification to the style will prevent the tab setting from being
updated.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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"Sometimes" isn't really reliable, is it? g I don't have enough
experience
to be dogmatic about this, but my recollection is that it's never happened
for me, and I don't usually "bother" the automatic tab stop. But I
certainly
won't question your experience, which is probably broader than mine.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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In my experience, Word sometimes does this (unless of course you have
explicitly modified the tab stops). It could be a version issue, I
guess.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You'd think that would work, but IME Word never moves the tab stop
even
if
you have changed the margins.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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But note that it might be easier than modifying tab stops. First try
to update the TOC: Either right-click it and choose "Update field"
or
place the cursor inside it and press F9. Make sure that you select
to
update the entire table, if prompted.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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What exactly is the problem? If the page numbers don't align
properly,
you can drag the tab stop to the desired location. It should be
sufficient to do this once for each level (because the TOC styles
are
set to update automatically, by default).

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"kaycee96" wrote in message
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I am having trouble changing the page orientation to landscape
in
a
set TOC