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Default hanging indents in tables

I have MS Word 2002. I created a list of items which have varying levels of
hanging indents. I create the hanging indents by tabbing the second line of
each item until the second line indents where I want it. When I try to
convert this text to a table, I lose the first tab and the hanging indents.
Then, I also can't create hanging indents in the table rows.

When I create this doc in Wordperfect 10 and convert the text to a table, I
keep all the hanging indents. Then, when I pull this doc into Word, I also
keep the hanging indents in the tables. Creating the hanging indents is also
easier and faster (fewer keystrokes or clicks) in Wordperfect. However, if I
convert the doc to Word, I can't figure out how to do more hanging indents in
the table if I decide to do later revisions. I would keep the doc in WP until
I am ready to go with a final version but I still wish I could work with the
hanging indents in Word if I need to.

I'm working with someone who only uses WPerfect and I want to be able to
convert their text list into a table with hanging indents. I seem to be able
to do it in Wordperfect but not in Word unless I do all the formatting in
Wordperfect and then convert the doc to Word.

Help! Any easy way to convert this work so I don't lose the indenting the
original writer does? Also, any easy way to do hanging indents in Word tables?

Thanks.