[bruce968]

(Oops. Should have put this in the Word group, not office.misc)

"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?