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When indenting in Word, the margins move
I am writing a book in Word and when I highlight block text for long quotes and try to indent them .5", the margins for surrounding text move too. I want the margins to remain in place at 1". It appe...
Tab settings are paragraph formatting, not document formatting.
If you change them in one paragraph, they do NOT change elsewhere in the document. If you are inside a paragraph or at the end of a paragraph you've modified and press Enter, the change applies in the new paragraph.
Consider modifying the style applied to the paragraph instead of the paragraph.
References:
- The Importance of Styles in Microsoft Word
- 3. Using Styles to Format Text
- Managing Word Styles by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
- 2.2 Why you should press Enter only once to end a paragraph
When you modify a style, you can check the option to also have the change apply in NEW documents based on the template.
Doug is right.
See Margins and Indents in Word.
Indents are paragraph formatting and is what you want to be adjusting, not margins.
If you want, save a sample document with the problem on OneDrive or DropBox and post a share or view link to it here.
Hi, Thanks for your imput. The problem was that Word was corrupted. Once it was reinstalled, it worked perfectly
- I'm glad you got it sorted out.
- Thanks. Still having issues with tab stops. I go to the paragraph group in the Home menu and open the dialogue box then the Tab button. I set the default tabs to .5" but when I get to an unedited section where the tabs were .81" they don't self-correct to .5" and the tab stops on the ruler change to reflect the unedited .81". I assume they don't self-correct even if I set the default tab stop to .5" and have to reset each one. I do notice that as I do that, the indents remain .5" for the sections edited, which is what I want. Is that how they work?
Tab settings are paragraph formatting, not document formatting.
If you change them in one paragraph, they do NOT change elsewhere in the document. If you are inside a paragraph or at the end of a paragraph you've modified and press Enter, the change applies in the new paragraph.
Consider modifying the style applied to the paragraph instead of the paragraph.
References:
- The Importance of Styles in Microsoft Word
- 3. Using Styles to Format Text
- Managing Word Styles by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
- 2.2 Why you should press Enter only once to end a paragraph
When you modify a style, you can check the option to also have the change apply in NEW documents based on the template.