Thanks so much, Stefan.

Applying normal setting seemed to work. All the tabs went away. So that seems good. Then I went to Format, Paragraph, and specified that it indent .5 on the first line. I think that is what they want, based on the instructions. But I had one more question. The publisher gave these instructions:

Please format all manuscripts in single line with the first line indented, and no double space between paragraphs (and no tabs in the document).

Our preferred font is Verdana, with the text in 12 point and the chapter headings in Bold 16 Point (centered).


I have two other quick questions. The first is about centered. They request that the chapter headings be centered, so centered must not count as a tab, right? The reason I ask is sometimes I have these breaks between sections that look like this:

* * * *

And I'm wondering if it's okay to center that. Since they asked the chapter headings to be centered, I figure centering is different than tabs, but I was just hoping you could clear that up for me.


Second question is about backspacing. Will that affect the document in a bad way? For example, after I applied normal to the entire document, parts would look like this:

blahblahblah




chapter two


If I want to bring chapter two closer to the 'blahblahblah', so there isn't a big gap between them, do you think that would mess up the formatting, in the same way that tabbing lines apparently messes up the formatting?

Thanks again. I really appreciate your help. Couldn't do this without ya.