Hanging indent after numbered headings

[Lee Richardson]

I don't feel like I should be the only one with this problem, so I
appologize for either not being able to follow the directions set
forth in http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html
or not being able to find my answer in any of the posts thus far in
this newsgroup.

My environment: Word 2002 SP2

My goal: Seems standard enough, numbered headings, each indented .25"
further than the last, with any text entered below the heading
(bodytext style I guess) being automatically indented an additional
..25. For example:

1 HeadingA (Heading 1)
Some text (Body Text)
1.1 HeadingAA (Heading 2)
Some more text (Body Text)
1.2 HeadingAB (Heading 2)
More text (Body Text)
1.2.1 Heading ABA (Heading 3)
Heading 3 text (Body Text)
2 HeadingB (Heading 1)
Insert text here (Body Text)
2.1 Heading BA (Heading 2)
Final text (Body Text)

My problem: After modifying my headings as per Shauna Kelly's tutorial
(i.e. not touching the paragraph indent, doing everything through
modify->style->format->numbering->customize then number position, text
position, link level to style, etc) my headings work like a champ, but
any text I put under any of the headings is always indented to 0".

More Info: All my Body Text does is: Normal + Space After 6pt and all
my Normal does is: Font: (Default) Times New, 12pt, English, Left,
Line Spacing: single, Window/Orphan control. Heading 2 for example
has: Number position - Aligned at = .25"; Text Position - Tab space
after: .25"; Text Position - Indent at: .25". (Ok, Heading 2 isn't
quite what I asked for in my goal, no additional indent, but same
basic idea).

I've spent way too much time trying to figure this out. Thanks in
advance for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

- Lee Richardson

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your Body Text style is not going to change just because you've got numbered
headings. The indent in a numbered style applies only to runover text in the
same paragraph. That is, if you have something like this:

1 Heading A (Heading 1) This is the text of a heading or other numbered
item that runs on very long until it wraps to the next line.

If you want indented text under your headings that's in a separate
paragraph, then you need some Continue styles. By default, the built-in List
Continue, List Continue 2, and so on have just the indents you're looking
for.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Tom Smith]

And if I understand what you're looking to do, you can format each heading
style so that the 'style for the following paragraph' would be the
'continue' style with the needed indent.

 

[Bruce Brown]

Lee -

Whatever attempt you make to automate your block indenting of text
under the paragraph number is probably going to be doomed because of
your legal numbering scheme.

Examples:

1.1.1 One Single Digit Per Level

This paragraph number conveniently has single digits in
each level, so that a tab indent of .5 will look perfect.

10.34.92 Double Digits In Each Level

This one inconveniently has all double digits,
which knocks the tab over to the next .5 setting.

Whether you use List Continue styles or styles of your own devising,
you're still going to have the same problem: you'll have to adjust
the left indent of the text block each time the number increments to
the point of going beyond the first tab stop.

A macro could be written that automatically adjusts the following
paragraph to a left indent that reflects the number position plus a
fixed addition like + 0.25 or + 0.5 ... or it could be based on the
tab setting within the Heading style. But both of those measurements
are fixed, whereas the space requirement for the legal number will
vary according to the number value.

If the exact position of the first character following the automatic
paragraph number were convertible into a measurement that could be
used as the left indent for the following paragraph, then your problem
would be solved. I just couldn't figure out a way to do it. Maybe
someone else will play around with the problem and figure out how both
the above examples could be aced with one macro. A lot of people
would probably benefit from such a solution. - Bruce

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