Well, first of all, you shouldn't be using "a few tabs." You should be using
a single tab stop where you want the material to be. Better still would be
to use a hanging indent: type the first line (Bank A), insert a line break
(Shift+Enter), and your succeeding lines will wrap to the indent position.
What has happened in this case, however, is undoubtedly that you have the
option to "Set first- and left-indent with tabs and backspaces" enabled in
Office Button | Word Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options | AutoFormat
As You Type, so that when you press Tab you are actually creating an indent.
You should then be able to use Backspace (or Shift+Tab) to remove the
indent.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Robert11" wrote in message
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Hello,
Using WORD 2007 and XP.
I have a document I update periodically.
On the left hand side, I have subjects listed like:
Bank A
Bank B
Bank C
Under each, with spacings of a a few tabs, I have some information, like
Bank A
Started in May
Bank B
Started in July
When I try to add a new Bank, e.g., Bank D, it puts it vertically aligned
to the Started in space/column.
(not really formatted as a column; just use of tabs)
So it looks like
Bank D
Started in Aug.
I can't seem to find the trick to get Bank D in vertical alignment with
the other Banks to the extreme left.
Backspaces won't help.
Any ideas, please ?
Thanks,
Bob