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
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.
mkramer777
ASKER
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?
Dr. Klahn, using styles is always a better practice than applying local formatting.
mkramer777
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?
Dr. Klahn
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!"