Modifying built-in table-of-contents styles

The table of contents in Word is a field code. If you press Alt+F9 on your…keyboard, you can toggle this field code on and off.…Because of this fact, if you manually make changes to your table of contents,…or TOC for short, every time Word updates the field, you'll lose all of your modifications.…This can be time consuming and just plain frustrating.…So how do we get this field code to stop overwriting our changes?…Well, you probably guessed it--styles.…

Word uses built-in styles, appropriately named TOC styles, to format the TOC.…Therefore modifying the TOC styles will tell Word to keep our formatting and our modifications.…Let me show you how this works.…Open the Styles pane.…Now click on this first line that's starts with "DESERT TO SEA."…This area is highlighted because it's a field.…We want to indent our TOC on the left at two inches,…so click and drag this bottom square in your indent to 2. And we also want our…page numbers to be indented on the right.…

First off, you can see you've a right- aligned tab. It looks like a backwards…