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Old 09-22-2017, 08:59 PM
SDwriter SDwriter is offline Windows 10 Office 2013
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Thanks again. One place she actually left me hanging, so to speak, is how to set up a hanging indent for my numbering and bullets. This is as far as she takes it on that page... I guess because she's mostly talking about headings:

"Now, modify the Paragraph settings of every Heading style so that the Left Indent is 0, and the Special indent is set to (none). Do this even if you want your headings to be indented from the left margin, and even if you want a hanging indent. Why? Because for outline-numbered styles, we will set the paragraph indent and the hanging indents (if any) when we set up the numbering."

After that, no explanation of how to do a hanging indent for the list style. I only know not to try it in the associated paragraph style. I see no "indent type" options on the Modify Multilevel list dialog. And the style's Paragraph option in the main format list is disabled. So what's the trick to getting subsequent lines of text to line up under the first line?

BTW, I think I stumbled onto a bug. I notice that when I set up a multilevel list and link the levels to appropriate styles, Then "OK" out and back to the page, it looks like how you set it up. But if I then go back in to modify anything about the number format/bullets/positions, once I "OK" out of the dialogs I lose all my list formatting on the pages. This is because Word 'forgot' all the level-to-style associations; they revert back to "(no style)" and need to be reset. I must have had to re-do these 20 times today. Easy to do, but annoying.
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