I agree completely. Since "flexible" tab stops exist only for tables
of contents, they should be independent of paragraph formatting.

The obvious exception would be when you've explicitly set tab stops
for a TOC style. Then you certainly don't want Word to automatically
adjust them. (Of course, the application wouldn't know which tab stop
to adjust, either, if there were several of them.)

Things would be easier if Word also allowed for tab stops to be set
relative to the right margin. Then there would be no need for the
"flexible" tab stops.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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That's good news, but kind of perverse. Styles define many settings,
including font, tab settings, and paragraph settings. But tabs
aren't part
of paragraph formatting per se (that is, they're not set in the
Format
Paragraph dialog), so it's no more reasonable for a change in Space
Before/After to affect tabs than for a change in font to do so.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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At least changing to italic, bold, underline, and a different font
size can be done without "locking" the tab stop.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Yes, and to further clarify, in addition to bolding TOC 1, I
later
realized
I had added some Space Before. So it's possible that font
formatting
alone
would not prevent the tab stop from being updated, but paragraph
formatting
would. Testing would be required to determine what changes, if
any,
can be
made without affecting the "elasticity" of the style.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Thank you for the insight. That certainly explains why, in my
experience, updating the TOC "sometimes" makes the
right-aligned
tab
stop adjust to page margins!

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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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
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I am having trouble changing the page
orientation to
landscape
in
a
set TOC