[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are suggesting applying direct formatting to given paragraphs in the
same style, then the reason for not doing it is that it makes a less easily
maintained document. The whole reason for having different styles is to
apply different formatting. And for complex documents such as books, the
Normal style will usually be avoided, anyway, with variations of Body Text
preferred.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"alborg" wrote in message
...
Hi Stefan:

What I don't understand is what is wrong with simply setting the "Normal"
style and setting to not indent the first paragraph only? Word does have
this
feature, and as such would be the ideal way to handle this problem (read
my
original note on how to arrive at that setting).

Cheers,
Al

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

As Suzanne wrote, you will have to use a different, unindented style for
the
first paragraph of text.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"UltimateGaijin" wrote in
message
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Thanks for the replies, i relize i could have put it better. What i
have
noticed is that in most/all ducuments the first paragraph is NOT
indented
but
all subsequent ones are. I dont know them name of this rule but it
seems
to
be the norm.

If i set indentation all paragraphs are indented, including the first.