Word insists on changing my text!

[Jim from chapel hill]

There must be a way to turn this off but I can't find it. I am creating an
interview style Q & A doc. I apply my 'indent' style, type a "Q" a tab and
the text of the question. When I hit return, WORD decides to indent
everything a bit further and place a capital "R" where I want to type the
name of the person being interviewed. If I re-apply my style, WORD
removes the "Q" that I typed.

I have already turned off the 'preference' setting "tab+backspace sets
indent." WORD is built to prevent me from entering and formatting text
that way I want to. Incredible behavior. Someone must know how to
turn off or disable this imposition by Microsoft. Direct reply to 'word
-at sign- turnipvideo.com would be fine, too!

 

[Robert A. Woodward]

There must be a way to turn this off but I can't find it. I am creating an
interview style Q & A doc. I apply my 'indent' style, type a "Q" a tab and
the text of the question. When I hit return, WORD decides to indent
everything a bit further and place a capital "R" where I want to type the
name of the person being interviewed. If I re-apply my style, WORD
removes the "Q" that I typed.

Did you try selecting "Undo" when MS Word did the autoformat?

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi Jim,

Re turning this off, under Tools | AutoCorrect, have you unchecked most of
the stuff in the AutoFormat As You Type pane? I think Word is applying an
automatic bulleted list. (Study that entire AutoCorrect dialog, many of the
AutoFormat options need to be unchecked but the AutoCorrect and AutoText can
be very useful).

DM

PS. In the microsoft.public.word.docmanagement NG, thread "Re: Q & A Format
- Paragraph numbering", Suzanne Barnhill posted this answer to someone who
did want Word to insert the Q and A automatically (Word is trying to help
you out, but uses "R"eply instead of "A"nswer).

"Yes. Create two paragraph styles, Question and Answer. In the Question
style, select Format | Numbering: Bulleted, and add the letter Q as a bullet
(this will be easier if you base the style on List Bullet). In the answer
style, use A for the bullet. In the Question style, set Answer as the "Style
for following paragraph" and vice versa. If answers sometimes exceed one
paragraph, you'll want an Answer Continue style that is indented but without
a bullet (you could base this on the List Continue style); assign a keyboard
shortcut to that style so that you can select it instead of Question when
you want to continue the answer.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[Arno Wouters]

There must be a way to turn this off but I can't find it. I am creating an
interview style Q & A doc. I apply my 'indent' style, type a "Q" a tab and
the text of the question. When I hit return, WORD decides to indent
everything a bit further and place a capital "R" where I want to type the
name of the person being interviewed. If I re-apply my style, WORD
removes the "Q" that I typed.

I have already turned off the 'preference' setting "tab+backspace sets
indent."

Which version of Word do you use?

I don't know about a "tab+backspace sets indent" setting, but I guess
that you should uncheck the options for automatic numbered lists. In
Word X this option is under the "autoformat as you type" tab under
autocorrect of the tools menu.

Direct reply to 'word
-at sign- turnipvideo.com would be fine, too!

Sorry, if the answer is important to you, you should take the trouble to
read the answers in the group.