K
Kenneth
Howdy,
I am using Word 2002 with XP.
I'm doing a rather elaborate outline for a piece of writing
and am indenting with Tabs. I am doing the outlining
manually, that is, without any of Word's available Outline
Formatting features.
I have Tools | Options | View | Formatting Marks | Tab
Characters checked, so I can see the many Tab characters I
am entering.
So, for a fourth level entry, I hit Tab-Tab-Tab and start
typing producing three right-pointing arrows followed by my
new entry.
Occasionally however, I hit the appropriate number of Tabs,
start typing, and only later discover that no Tab Characters
are visible for that entry.
At that point, I have to go to the Paragraph Marker (also
visible) just above, hit Enter (to create a new empty line
above the entry I just created) touch Delete to bring the
entry to that line, and finally hit the Tab key the
appropriate number of times to make the tabs visible.
I know that the formatting information is held as if "in the
paragraph" marker, but still am baffled.
Might you suggest some possible reasons that the "Tab Key
Visible" setting seems to turn itself Off on occasion?
Many thanks for any help on this,
I am using Word 2002 with XP.
I'm doing a rather elaborate outline for a piece of writing
and am indenting with Tabs. I am doing the outlining
manually, that is, without any of Word's available Outline
Formatting features.
I have Tools | Options | View | Formatting Marks | Tab
Characters checked, so I can see the many Tab characters I
am entering.
So, for a fourth level entry, I hit Tab-Tab-Tab and start
typing producing three right-pointing arrows followed by my
new entry.
Occasionally however, I hit the appropriate number of Tabs,
start typing, and only later discover that no Tab Characters
are visible for that entry.
At that point, I have to go to the Paragraph Marker (also
visible) just above, hit Enter (to create a new empty line
above the entry I just created) touch Delete to bring the
entry to that line, and finally hit the Tab key the
appropriate number of times to make the tabs visible.
I know that the formatting information is held as if "in the
paragraph" marker, but still am baffled.
Might you suggest some possible reasons that the "Tab Key
Visible" setting seems to turn itself Off on occasion?
Many thanks for any help on this,