can you auto change indentations on a doc from 0.5 to 0.3?
I wrote a novel in word and I just typed the whole thing before any formatting. I used tab for the start of new pargraph. I have found this to be wrong on many websites so I changed the indentation for first line from 0.5 to 0.3 This works fine but my question is how do I get all of my paragraphs that are tabbed at 0.5 to auto change to 0.3? Maybe there is not way to do that. Right now I have been clicking in front of the paragraph and hitting the delete key which brings the indent back to the changed setting of 0.3
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John Korchok
That's what styles are for. If you create a Normal Indent style and apply that to all indented paragraphs, then all you have to do is to change the style paragraph Before text parameter. All paragraphs instantly update.
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Can't see where to do this. I have to create a normal indent style? I see the indentation where I set first line to 0.3 (previously 0.5) Can you tell me step by step where this is done?
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- On the Home tab, in the Styles gallery, open the Styles Pane.
- Click on the Options button, then change the Select styles to show dropdown to All Styles and OK out.
- Scroll down the list. Near the bottom is Normal Indent.
- Click on the down-pointing arrowhead at the right end of the style name and choose Modify.
- Check Add to the Styles Gallery.
- Click on Format and choose Paragraph.
- Change Before text to 0.3", then OK out.
- Select the indented paragraphs, then click on the Normal Indent style in the Styles gallery to apply it.
Dr. Klahn, using styles is always a better practice than applying local formatting.
ASKER
Thanks Dr. Klahn, that worked. Not sure on one thing though. All I had to do was the replace all command and it fixed all paragraphs to indent from 0.5 to 0.3. I did not have to do the rest of the instructions. Do you think it is because I had already set the indent first line to 0.3 before I did the replace all?
Could be. As long as it works satisfactorily, how the effect is achieved is not so important. Office is a big black box, there are nine-and-sixty ways of doing anything, "and every single one of them is right!"
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I admit, that's a common attitude. But local formatting is inherently inefficient when formatting must be updated.