Hanging indent - 2nd line not wrapping

[Anne Young]

I am in the process of reformatting many documents, some
of which I think were originally created in WordPerfect
(They were given to me as Word docs; however, when I go to
Options | Compatibility | Do full justification like
WordPerfect, the lines in a manually-numbered list
*sometimes* wrap correctly. But only sometimes.) I am
reformatting them all in Word 2002.

I have had several frustrations with this process,
including:

Hanging indents do NOT wrap correctly at the second line,
despite the fact that the margins for my manually-numbered
text show up correctly:
a. in the ruler bar;
b. when I check the Reveal Formatting Window;
and c. when I double-check the style for this kind of
list. When I compare selections, there appears to be no
difference between my list and a list that lines up
correctly elsewhere in the same document with the same
formatting.

Ideas?

THANK YOU!

--Anne

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Anne,

I am in the process of reformatting many documents, some
of which I think were originally created in WordPerfect

This explains it

Tools/Options/General and turn off the two WordPerfect
checkboxes.

You should probably reset the Compatibility options to Word
2002, too, across the board.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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