Apart from any influence by outside factors, such as add-ins, by deleting
the registry data key and renaming normal.dot (the capitalization is
irrelevant) you return Word to its install default settings, removing any
changes that may have been introduced into Word 2000 and carried over by the
upgrade.
Now select format tabs. Click the 'Clear all' button. Now add whatever
setting you want to the default tab stops dialog.OK out of that, and the
default tabs will be set at half an inch, unless you override them by a tab
setting in the current paragraph style or for the particular paragraph by
the format tab dialog.
Increase and decrease indent work by moving the indent in line with the
*default* tabs and not with the paragraph style tab setting.
You would find Word documents much easier to edit if you forgot about manual
formatting and used paragraph styles with the layouts you require.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
hayakaw1 wrote:
I want to go back to the basic: what is controling the default indent
increase/decrease level? Every time I click on "Increase Indent"
icon, I get the following results:
1st click: 0.15" from the left
2nd click: 0.29" from the left
3rd click: 0.44" from the left
4th click: 0.58" from the left
5th click: 0.73" from the left
6th click: 0.88" from the left
7th click: 1.02" from the left
What is contolling these parameters? How can I change them? Are the
solutions suggested by Mr. Mayor and you meant to affect these
parameters?
Thank you very much for taking your valuable time for assisting me.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
That's the whole idea. You force Word to generate a new,
factory-default Normal.dot and Registry key. If this doesn't solve
the problem, then the problem is not with Normal.dot or the
Registry. Which leaves add-ins.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"hayakaw1" wrote in message
...
Hi, Ms. Barnhill.
I deleted
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\ Word\Data" but I
couldn't solve the problem. In addition, "Normal.dot" was revived
after I changed its file name to "oldnormal.dot" and the key I
deleted was also automatically revived when I shut down Word 2003.
I don't know what to do.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The key Graham referred to is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"hayakaw1" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much for your advice again.
I found "Normal.dot" (the first character "N" was capitalized)
and changed the file name to "oldnormal.dot" (by using a
non-capitalized letter "o" for the first character). Then I
restarted the computer, but I couldn't solve the problem.
When I attempted to resort to the secondary solution, I found
three files ("(default)", "Settings", and "Toolbars"
respectively), but I am not sure which file is "that" key you
mentioned in your last e-mail. Could you specify which file I
must delete?
Sorry for asking you questions over and over, but solving this
problem is very important (if I can't solve this, I may have to
go back to Word 2000). Thank you very much.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Ensure Word is not running (it may be running in the background
if you use Word as an editor for Outlook and Outlook is running
- so close both Word and Outlook).
To enable you to see exactly what you are doing open Windows
Explorer then tools folder options view and check 'show
hidden files and folders' and uncheck 'hide extensions for
known file types'. (You can always change them back later, but
mistakes are made by not dealing with the correct files so I
would recommend leaving it that way.) Then locate and rename
normal.dot to oldnormal.dot (It is in the folder set at tools
options file locations user templates).
See if this fixes the problem before moving on to the next part.
The registry entry you listed is for Word 2000 and not 2003.
The appropriate registry entry for Word 2003 is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data
You can delete that key (but ONLY that key). select it in the
left Window of the registry editor, right click and delete it.
When you restart Word, it will rebuild both the normal.dot file
and the registry data key (to install defaults). You will have
to reset some preferences, but you can use the organizer in Word
to copy some preferences from the oldnormal.dot to the new
normal.dot.
Have a good Christmas!
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
hayakaw1 wrote:
Thank you very much for your advice.
Yes, I upgraded Office 2000 to Office 2003. I tried to locate
the "normal.dot" file but I couldn't --- All I could find was
"Normal" Microsoft Word Template. I turned on the appropriate
radio button so that the "find" command would do search through
hidden files. Could you tell me how to find "normal.dot"?
I checked "www.gmayor.com" as you instructed. By using the
registry editer, I found "(default)", "FontInfoCache", and
"User Data" at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Wo rd. File
types are respectively "REG_SZ", REG_BINARY", and "REG_DWORD".
Do I need to delete "User Data"?
I would appreciate your kind advice.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
With Word 2003 (SP2) here, the indent increases by whatever
you set the default tab stop to?
When you upgraded, did you start with a clean install or did
you upgrade 2000? If the latter, rename normal.dot (a hidden
file) to oldnormal.dot and delete the Word data registry key
(see http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm )
You can copy your macros/toolbars etc from old to new
template, but you will have to rebuild your tools options
and autoformatting settings.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
hayakaw1 wrote:
Hi. I have just moved from Word 2000 to Word 2003.
What I am trying to do is to increase or decrease indent by
0.25 inch everytime I click on the the "increase indent" icon
or the "decrease indent" icon. Currently, the indent
increases or decreases 1/6 inch.
When I was using Word 2000, I could do it by changing default
tab stop parameter from 0.5 inch to 0.25 inch. However, I
cannot use this method for Word 2003. When I change the
parameter of default tab stop, it does affect the tab
function but not indenting function.
The increase and decrease of indent seems to be following not
the default tab stop parameter but the gridline.
I would appreciate if someone can give me kind advice.
Thank you very much.