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MS Word for Windows 95 Outline problem

Whittier Public Library (wpl@quick.net)
Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:00:11 -0700

Okay, so this isn't an Internet question, per se. It *is* a
technical question, inasmuch as inquiries about how to get software
to something it ought to be able to do are technical questions.

We're trying to compose an outline using MS Word on a Windows 95
machine. (I don't know the version, but it's the one that comes with
MS Office Pro for Win95.) We proceed by opening a new document and choosing
Outline from the View menu. Then, under Format, we can choose an
outline format, e.g., I., A., 1., a., etc., including what appear to
be hanging indents. Indeed, there is an option to Modify the format,
where there appears a box we have checked to create a hanging indent.

Hanging indents, for those who don't know, usually refer to
paragraphs which will appear like so:

"When TCP on the receiving machine sends an acknowledgement, it
includes a window advertisement in the segment to tell the sender how
much buffer space the receiver has available for additional data."

.as opposed to like so:

" When TCP on the receiving machine sends an acknowledgement, it
includes a window advertisement in the segment to tell the sender how
much buffer space the receiver has available for additional data."

Word, however, will not let us adjust paragraph indentation because
we're working in Outline mode. What we want to see is:

"1. When TCP on the receiving machine sends an acknowledgement, it
includes a window advertisement in the segment to tell the sender how
much buffer space the receiver has available for additional data.

2. Blah blah blah..."

What we see, however, is:

"1. When TCP on the receiving machine sends an acknowledgement, it
includes a window advertisement in the segment to tell the sender how
much buffer space the receiver has available for additional data.

2. Blah blah blah..."

Now, you might argue that we aren't actually trying to create hanging
indents, rather, we are trying to left justify the text within each
number. Fine. At this point, we don't even care about nomenclature.
We just want the stupid outline to look the way we want it to look.
Word experts, please respond! What're we doing wrong?

Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Library