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changing the default tab settings
when i open word 2007, there is a default centre & right tab set. If i do a
bullett or numbered points and save as 2003 compatable, the alignmennt of the words goes in line with the centre tab. Its fine if i save as docx. I've gone into the tab settings and tried removing the tabs and changing them to left but they reappear everytime i start a new document. Is there something in styles or the default template that is the cause? |
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changing the default tab settings
tony wrote:
when i open word 2007, there is a default centre & right tab set. If i do a bullett or numbered points and save as 2003 compatable, the alignmennt of the words goes in line with the centre tab. Its fine if i save as docx. I've gone into the tab settings and tried removing the tabs and changing them to left but they reappear everytime i start a new document. Is there something in styles or the default template that is the cause? Your Normal.dotm template is messed up. In new documents based on the default Normal.dotm template, the empty single paragraph has the Normal style, in which there are no defined tab stops (only the invisible "default" stops). The center and right tab stops are standard for the Header style and the Footer style, but the empty single paragraph in a new document shouldn't have either of those styles. So your Normal.dotm template may have Header or Footer style applied to the empty paragraph, or it may have unwanted tab stops defined in the Normal style. Either of those is wrong. Rather than mess around with trying to fix the existing template, the easiest course is to restore the Normal.dotm template to the out-of-the-box default. To do that: - Close all instances of Word. - Using the Windows Explorer (also called Computer or My Computer, depending on Windows version), type in the folder path %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates - Select the Normal.dotm template and rename it to OldNormal.dotm. - Restart Word. Your new document should be free of unwanted tab stops and other weirdness. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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