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When you say "inserting a tab," you don't literally mean that you see
the Non-Printing Character for a tab, do you? You just mean that the
first line of the paragraph is indented?

It means that whatever Style you're using (and you _are_ using a style
every time you type anything whatsoever in Word) is set to have an
indent. You can manually override it at any point, but as soon as you
reapply the style, it "fixes" it back to how it's supposed to be.

I'm surprised that something called "Hanging 0" even exists, because
that's the equivalent of "(none)." In the Format Paragraph panel
that you open when you Modify the Style, simply set the indent to
(none), not to Hanging 0".

On May 28, 12:35*pm, bruce968
wrote:

"bruce968" wrote:
I am encountering a problem in Word 2007 that has me entirely stumped.

When I paste a paragraph or apply a paragraph style, Word is inserting a tab
before my paragraph. *
I cannot select the tab or backspace over it. *It may go away if I use the
mouse to drag the indent marker on the ruler one way and then back to where
it was. *

Another possible clue: the style I'm trying to apply, that's adding the
indent, is called "Requirement Tag". *My style list also includes a style
called Requirement Tag + Hanging: 0". *As you might guess, the hanging 0
style has "Hanging" selected on the paragraph options and a size of 0"
selected. *Applying that style gets rid of the mystery tab. *When I try to
set Requirement Tag to "Hanging 0" my change is ignored -- going back to the
paragraph options shows the selection changed from "Hanging" to "(none)".

In Googling this problem, I ran across some references to a "virtual hanging
indent" that occurs when there are no tab stops defined in a document but it
was not clear what versions of Word that applied to, and I didn't see any way
to turn it on or off.

I've tried turning off the auto format as you type option "Set left-and
first-indent with tabs and backspaces" And I've turned off all of the "Apply"
options on the AutoCorrect | AutoFormat tab.
Can anyone help me stop this behavior?-