I do audio transcription for a company and I am using word 97, which works fine for me, but the template that they give me for these legal transcripts contains a contents page that indicates where certain testimony begins. At the left margin is the content descriptor, and then after some tabs is the page number where it begins. The problem that is driving me crazy is that even when I vertically align the page numbers on the right side, the column number indicator is different, and when I'm handing them in, they're telling me to vertically align the page numbers, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ALGINED IN MY DOCUMENT They think that there may be a problem with the transfer to the newer version of word they're using (but they're not sure), and I want to find out for myself how I can fix this.

I thought that it might be problem with the tabs or something, so I got rid of them and just used the space bar, but the same problem is there. Can someone tell me what is going on here? This is so frustrating. It looks right on my end, but for some reason, it doesn't on theirs, and I want to improve this or let them know that I cant' fix it because it may be out of my control. Please help me.

Correction -- just now I looked at my document, and the column numbers are the same after I got rid of the tabs. So can someone tell me what the tabs do and how they affect column number?