how can I get format painter to format paragraphs?
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From: Carol on 13 Jan 2010 15:59 I am following the directions for format painter, but I cannot get it to format my paragraphs to just one tab indentation. (At some point, without me doing anything, my computer arbitrarily double tabbed on some of my paragraphs. I would like all my paragraphs to have just one indentation without having to manually go back and delete the extra indentation.) The process I have tried to use: I highlighed a paragraph with the correct indentation, then clicked on format painter, then highlighted the incorrect paragraph. Nothing changes. Likewise if I double click on format painter and try to do several pages of the document. Thanks for any help you can give me. Carol
From: Herb Tyson [MVP] on 13 Jan 2010 16:22
When you say "double tabbed", are there in fact two tab characters? Press Ctrl+Shift+* to toggle non-printing characters on if they're not already displayed. Tab characters look like a little arrow that points to the right. If you have actual tab characters... my own preference would be do accomplish indentation using first-line indent settings, rather than with tabs. Be that as it may... if you prefer tabs, then try deleting the extra tabs. Assuming you never want to have two consecutive tabs with no intervening characters, you could also do this using Find/Replace as follows: Find what:^t^t Replace with:^t Choose Replace All. This will replace all two-tab occurrences with a single tab. The ^t token is the special search symbol that Word uses to match tabs. By "^t", I don't mean press Ctrl+t. I mean type a caret (^) followed by a lowercase t: ^t. Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Carol" <Carol(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:83412769-3015-454F-8143-1E98F5D9FEBF(a)microsoft.com... > I am following the directions for format painter, but I cannot get it to > format my paragraphs to just one tab indentation. (At some point, without > me > doing anything, my computer arbitrarily double tabbed on some of my > paragraphs. I would like all my paragraphs to have just one indentation > without having to manually go back and delete the extra indentation.) > > The process I have tried to use: I highlighed a paragraph with the correct > indentation, then clicked on format painter, then highlighted the > incorrect > paragraph. Nothing changes. Likewise if I double click on format painter > and try to do several pages of the document. Thanks for any help you can > give me. Carol |