How stop 5-space gaps after 1st 9 items in auto-format lists?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

In auto-format-numbered lists, the first nine items work great. But on #10
and thereafter, five extra spaces are inserted after the numeral.
Example:
8. eighth point
9. ninth point
10. tenth point
11. eleventh point

Your counsel, please?

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

In auto-format-numbered lists, the first nine items work great. But on #10
and thereafter, five extra spaces are inserted after the numeral.
Example:
8. eighth point
9. ninth point
10. tenth point
11. eleventh point

Your counsel, please?

You had one answer when you asked this question on Tuesday - did
that help? If not, let us know what you tried and why it's not
satisfactory.

If you didn't see it, you can always check the archives. Posts show
up about 4-8 hours after they hit the msnews server and are
available permanently. Use your name or email address in the author
field to see any newsgroup post you ever made:

http://google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*mac.office*

Here's Tuesday's question along wtih Dayo Mitchell's reply:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=BBA8892D.C1A3%[email protected]
llerton.edu

I differ somewhat from Dayo in what I'd recommend. Applying direct
formatting will work, and if it's a one-off document, probably
pretty well. But because I almost always do all my formatting via
styles, I would instead apply a List Style and choose an indent for
that style that was large enough to accommodate the number of digits
in my list. For instance, choose Format/Style, select List, click
Modify, then choose Paragraph from the Format dropdown. I then set
the Special dropdown in the Indentation block to Hanging and choose
and appropriate size for the document - at least 0.25 inch, and
sometimes as much as 0.5 inch for list numbering of two digits.

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

You had one answer when you asked this question on Tuesday . . . .

If you didn't see it, you can always check the archives. Posts show
up about 4-8 hours after they hit the msnews server and are
available permanently. Use your name or email address in the author
field to see any newsgroup post you ever made:

http://google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*mac.office*

Here's Tuesday's question along wtih Dayo Mitchell's reply . . . .

Thanks so very much, J.E. I appreciated Dayo's and your suggestions that
followed.

But his reply, although I found it with the Google url you gave me, did NOT
show up in my search of the msnews server Word group on the news server by
"Subject" (using verbatim words from my original subject line) nor in my
search by "From" (using Dayo's name after you told me he had responded).

The reason for calling this to your attention is that I'd like to suggest
that something may have gone wrong with what was displayed in the Word
newsgroup during or after the overhaul of the ms news server a few days
ago.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

But his reply, although I found it with the Google url you gave me, did NOT
show up in my search of the msnews server Word group on the news server by
"Subject" (using verbatim words from my original subject line) nor in my
search by "From" (using Dayo's name after you told me he had responded).

The reason for calling this to your attention is that I'd like to suggest
that something may have gone wrong with what was displayed in the Word
newsgroup during or after the overhaul of the ms news server a few days
ago.

(Her reply, btw....) How are you accessing the newsgroups? If using the MS
Web interface, you may prefer using Google to read them on the web, it is
supposed to be easier and quicker. If you are using a newsreader (e.g.,
Entourage, Netscape) the servers have been having issues due to spam/virus,
and it may not have downloaded properly to you, and a search would only
search messages on your computer, not the server.

Dayo

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

(Her reply, btw....)

Sorry - I knew that... can only plead exhaustion!