[Jean Chicago]

I like to use numbers for paragraphs in the same essential formatting as the
rest of the text: first line indented, the rest flush with all text.
The only way I've figured how to do this is to laboriously format each list
by clicking until I direct the software to indent only the first line (versus
"hanging"). But I cannot save this style as a unique style, or alter the
"list paragraph" style or the "normal" style or any other pre-made style -
the modification isn't recognized. It's as if Word 2007 requires all
numbered lists to have margins that line up with the number.
Ridiculous! Does anyone have a work-around?
(It's not a cure to turn off auto-numbering, because then you lose the
ability to renumber the paragraphs automatically.)

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In the Define New Multilevel List dialog, you can set the indents for the
first and subsequent lines and link the number format to a style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Jean Chicago" wrote in message
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I like to use numbers for paragraphs in the same essential formatting as
the
rest of the text: first line indented, the rest flush with all text.
The only way I've figured how to do this is to laboriously format each
list
by clicking until I direct the software to indent only the first line
(versus
"hanging"). But I cannot save this style as a unique style, or alter the
"list paragraph" style or the "normal" style or any other pre-made style -
the modification isn't recognized. It's as if Word 2007 requires all
numbered lists to have margins that line up with the number.
Ridiculous! Does anyone have a work-around?
(It's not a cure to turn off auto-numbering, because then you lose the
ability to renumber the paragraphs automatically.)