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Old 08-13-2015, 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by gmayor View Post
The reason you are getting the style change is because of your autoformat as you type settings. With Word 2007 > Office Button > Word Options > Proofing > Autocorrect Options > AutoFormat as You type. Uncheck all those items that you don't require i.e. most of them!
I found the instruction to uncheck "most of them" curious. It's just a tad non-specific. I would think that the solution would be to uncheck "all" of them or just one specific setting.

I decided to uncheck them one at a time to see which, if any, of them made a difference. I've attached a screen shot of my settings as they were before unchecking any.

As I perused the list, I noticed that the only one that explicitly mentions tabs is the next to last one: "Set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces". So I unchecked that one and reran the test. The "bad tab" behavior did not occur. This appears to have fixed the problem.

Can I conclude that it is this one setting that is causing the problem?

But I am still puzzled by this. As far as I know, I have had this setting checked forever. I don't recall ever setting it either way (on or off). I have been using Word 2007 for about 10 years and I use Word all the time (thousands of documents). I am quite certain that this "bad tab" behavior never occurred until I wrote the MyOutlineLevel macro and then only after running the macro. Doesn't that suggest that it also has something to do with this macro?
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