

Clear the Automatic Numbered Lists check box.Turn off auto bullet or numbering in Outlook. The AutoFormat As You Type tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box. If you dont want them to be automatically bulleted or numbered, you need to turn this auto format feature off. Make sure the AutoFormat As You Type tab is selected.(In Word 2002 or Word 2003 choose AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu.) Word displays the AutoCorrect dialog box. Choose AutoCorrect from the Tools menu.If the automatic formatting bothers you a lot, you can follow these steps: If you didn't want the paragraph to be a numbered list item, you can cancel the formatting done by Word by immediately pressing Ctrl+Z after the automatic formatting is applied. In addition, Word assumes the next paragraph will be part of the same numbered list.įor instance, if you type a number or letter, a period, and then the Space Bar or the Tab key, and then type your text, when you press Enter, Word formats the paragraph as a numbered list. The First, and Left indent settings in Pages v5.2.2 are here: Toolbar > Format > Text > Layout. If you want to force an end of a sentence, without forming a new paragraph, with/out auto-indent effect, use either shift+enter, or control+enter. When you enter some text that Word thinks should be a numbered list, and then press Enter, Word formats the paragraph with a hanging indent and places an appropriate number at the beginning of it. In word processing, we only do hard returns when we deliberately want a new paragraph. One incarnation of this feature is seen when Word creates automatic numbered lists for you. One of the ways in which Word tries to help you create documents faster is by automatically applying formatting to your document, based on what you type.
