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Guessed · 08-31-2021, 04:47 PM

Yes, it appears that the text 'immediately' following the autonumber must flow to the right of the tab stop.

I don't agree that Heading 3 is demonstrating different behaviour. It has a manually inserted tab at the start of the paragraph and it most likely has a hanging indent that exceeds the length of the autonumber.

If you configured your Heading 1 and Heading 2 so the hanging indent is larger than the space required by the autonumber AND added a tab at the start of the paragraph I think you see the same behaviour as Heading 3. You can avoid the poor optics of the double tab by configuring the outline list levels to Follow number with a space instead of a tab. You still need to start your headings with a tab but at least there is only one and not two.

To me, the next problem occurs when the heading wraps to the next line. Having it start under the autonumber is a problem. To solve that, I would right align the style and set your RIGHT tab to align with the Right paragraph indent.