Microsoft KB Archive/26046

Tab Between First and Left Indent Appears to Be Ignored

PSS ID Number: Q26046 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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A decimal, right-justified, or center-justified tab lying between the first-line indent and the left indent on the ruler may not function as expected in Microsoft Word versions 3.x and 4.00.

Specifically, when the first character of the paragraph is a tab and the paragraph is longer than one line, the information after the tab character does not move to the right, and it appears that the tab character is being ignored.

This problem occurs only when you have more than one line of text, in which case Word cannot be sure how you want the text to align. In other words, using a right, centered, or decimal tab in this position is not logical.

To correct this situation, do one of the following:


 * 1) Use a left tab instead.
 * 2) Insert a SHIFT+RETURN (the RETURN key on the main keyboard) to create a newline character at the end of the first line. This will retain the paragraph format, but break the line.
 * 3) Insert a tab character after the text in the first line that you want to align at the first tab stop.

KBCategory: kbusage kbprb KBSubCategory: Additional reference words: macword macword5

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