Hello Dave,
From your post, my understanding on this issue is: you wonder why Word
ignores hanging indent as tab stop for numbering in the attached word xml
document. If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.
According to the KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937936, the
setting "Don't use hanging indent as tab stop for bullets and numbering" in
Word Options | Advanced tab is new to Word 2007; all versions before that
always ignore the hanging indent:
For Word xml file, the default behavior of Word 2003 and 2007 is to omit
the virtual hanging tab (In Word 2007, we have an option to make Word
enable the hanging tab)
For normal Word 2003 doc files opened in Word 2003, the hanging tab is
always omitted.
For normal Word 2003 doc files opened in Word 2007, Word 2007 will
automatically set the option "Don't use hanging indent as tab stop for
bullets and numbering" selected, and omit the hanging indention.
For normal Word 2007 docx files opened in Word 2007, Word 2007 will use
hanging indent as tab top for bullets and numbering by default.
For normal Word 2007 docx files opened in Word 2003, Word 2003 will omit
the virtual hanging tab, and therefore, may misaligned the document. (see
KB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937936)
I also need to include one more note in the Indention rules for you in the
post "indent positioning in DOCX": default tab stops only exist after the
last custom tab stop on the line. So, only default tab stops after 1440
(e.g. 2160) are used.
If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to let me
know.
Regards,
Jialiang Ge (
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