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Numbered List in Word 2003

Jun 19, 2010 2:09AM PDT

When I hit a hundred in my list the space between the number and the sentence increases. How do I format so that from 100 onward the formatting matches number 1-99?

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I would cheat.
Jun 19, 2010 5:54AM PDT

Hopefully others here will have a 'proper' answer, but when I came across this problem before, I cheated.

I discarded numbered lists and went for a table instead. I hid all the table borders and cell borders, made the 1st column, (the left most column), wide enough for 3 digits, left justified it, then used the right hand column for all the text entries.

Since I was only using it as a presentation document, when it printed it looked fine.

Mark

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Re: numbered list
Jun 20, 2010 4:40AM PDT

If you change the settings in Tools>Options>View to show tabs (or all non-printable characters, which includes tabs) you'll see how it works. Now select the whole list and set the first tab on the position you prefer (a little bit right of the current default, probably).

I always wonder why people prefer to do their formatting in the blind.

Kees