WORD 2003 - Setting tabs

[vgmanvg7]

I am running WORD 2003 with a Windows XP Pro version 2002 OS. All virus and spyware protections have been in place, and my system is clean

I do not know how to set the default TABS settings so that all subsequent lines in a bulleted or outlined paragraph (indented) will correctly align and wrap -- with each line indented the same amount in a straight and consistent left margin.

Each new line of such an indented bulleted or numbered paragraph goes back to the far left margin for the page, and I must manually indent each line with a new tab keystroke. Once the paragraph is set, as soon as I try to insert or delete another word, all of the text in that paragraph shifts around with open spaces and gaps, weird indents, and underlining in open spaces at the left margin.

If I send such a WORD document to another person, they have the same problems trying to format that document (not their own originals documents).

I have read the Windows Help tabs, which are not helpful or easily decipherable to me.

I would appreciate anyone's helpful suggestions.

Thanks.

 

[Anne Troy]

I think your problems will be solved if you follow "the rules". Of course, you can't know the rules if you're never told, and Word just doesn't tell you the rules...

http://www.officearticles.com/word/...h_bullets_and_numbering_in_microsoft_word.htm

(See the very last topic--it's likely your problem!)

 

[Anne Troy]

Oh! And you can change the default ones, if you like:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/changing_default_bullets_and_numbering_in_microsoft_word.htm