Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How to change default paragraph formatting in numbered lists in Microsoft Word?

When doing numbered lists the default is block paragraph formatting. I need to change it to first line indent and have that the default from now on. Perusing Help and the knowledge base is not help at all. Thanks for any help.How to change default paragraph formatting in numbered lists in Microsoft Word?
Try this (with Word XP (2002) and the adjacent versions. Word Vista (2007) probably has something similar):



1. Right click in an element of the list you want to change and select Bullets and Numbering.

2. The style for that list should be selected in one of the eight boxes.

3. Click the Customize button.

4. Here's where you can play with the indentation, etc. of the style. Note that Outline Numbered styles have a list box for selecting a particular outline level.

Note also that this may affect other documents, currently existing or not, that use this outline style.



Hope that helps.

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