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Numbered Procedural Steps Alignment
I am a technical writer who uses Word a lot to write user documentation. I
recently upgraded to Office 2007, and there are several things that I find are very unfriendly for writing procedures. The procedural template I use for one company uses Arial 11 pt font for the document content, and Arial 14 pt for the number of the steps, as well as call out on the screen images. The initial indent level for the procedures is to have the number at 0 left margin and the content that follows it indented to .25". This works great for 1 - 9, but when I get to double-digit numbers, it places a .25" tab after the number and susequent lines of text do not align with the new indent. Not sure if this will show up in the blog correctly, but here is an example of what it looks like: 9. Click the Submit button to submit the new record and continue to the next page of the document. 10. Enter the yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. All numbers should be aligned at the left margin and all content should begin at the same indent. I can't seem to fix it, regardless of what settings I change. I've tried changing the tab, using a space instead of a tab, creating a new numbered list type, updating the style, changing the indents...... I can "fool" it by changing the numbering from left alignment to right, then adding an indent to the number of .25", but it's still not right.... I want to go back to Word 2003!!! |
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Numbered Procedural Steps Alignment
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/N...gnment2007.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Bubba MaGrew" wrote in message ... I am a technical writer who uses Word a lot to write user documentation. I recently upgraded to Office 2007, and there are several things that I find are very unfriendly for writing procedures. The procedural template I use for one company uses Arial 11 pt font for the document content, and Arial 14 pt for the number of the steps, as well as call out on the screen images. The initial indent level for the procedures is to have the number at 0 left margin and the content that follows it indented to .25". This works great for 1 - 9, but when I get to double-digit numbers, it places a .25" tab after the number and susequent lines of text do not align with the new indent. Not sure if this will show up in the blog correctly, but here is an example of what it looks like: 9. Click the Submit button to submit the new record and continue to the next page of the document. 10. Enter the yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada yada. All numbers should be aligned at the left margin and all content should begin at the same indent. I can't seem to fix it, regardless of what settings I change. I've tried changing the tab, using a space instead of a tab, creating a new numbered list type, updating the style, changing the indents...... I can "fool" it by changing the numbering from left alignment to right, then adding an indent to the number of .25", but it's still not right.... I want to go back to Word 2003!!! |
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