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formatting question in Word2003 with XP - Wendy
Posted: Jun 13, 2010
I just recently switched to Word2003 and am having issues with formatting. I tried everything I can think of but color me DUHHHH because it is not working.
I have to number impressions. I would like to somehow set ALL documents for this to line up the same way and I must be missing something because I have to do this each document.
I went to numbers/bulletting and even made it custome, but again, each document has to have it redone. When you are doing 50, it is time consuming.
When I am at impression, I want it to keep the number at the left margin and only tab over about 2 to 3 spaces....like....
1. start here.
and to do it every document where I hit 1.tab.
I changed the tab setting, but the problem seems to be when it goes to the next number, it goes like this.......
1. okay for the first impression, then I hit enter for the next impression and everything moves over like this...and the next impression is under the 1.
1. here
why wont it let me make this a default setting somehow or did I just not do this right?
any help appreciated...
wendy
Formating number alignment in Word 2003 - Justme
[ In Reply To ..]I had the same problem as you on an account that required frequent numbering. Here is a website that might help you.
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm
I played with my hanging indent to get it right. However, you can use the numbering tool beside the bullet bar in the toolbar as per the diagram on that site.
formatting - wendy
[ In Reply To ..]will give it a shot thank you
2003 has a built-in numbering style that keeps numbers at left margin and - SM
[ In Reply To ..]also gives you your hanging indent. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to the List Number style. When finished with your list, hit the built-in shortcut Ctrl + Q to get back to regular paragraph formatting.
The auto indent can only be removed with a style, keyboard shortcuts, or a macro. There's no setting to turn it off.
keyboard short cut - wendy
[ In Reply To ..]that is worth a shot...will try to figure that out and hopefully be done with this.
thank you
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