In Microsoft Word 2000 (free with windows XP) Change the spacing between default tab stops Select the paragraphs in which you want to change the tab stops.
On the Format menu, click Tabs. In the Default tab stops box, enter the amount of spacing you want between tab stops. > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 21/10/02 14:11:34 > Subject: [USMA:22857] Re: Why ISO paper is metric and US paper is not > > That's what I had to do. > > 1. Right-click "start", click "search", look in the C: drive for "normal.dot", note its path. > > 2. In Word, follow that path and open that file. > > 3. Change tab setting (Format - Tabs). > > 4. That worked. > > cm > > In a message dated Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:48:28 +1000, Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Dear Carlton, > > > >You have to change the tab settings in the 'Normal' template � probably in a > >folder called 'Templates'. > > > >I can't tell you what I think of the Microsoft company every time that I > >reload MS Word and have to go step by step through putting my computer back > >(as close as I can) to SI and ISO 8601. > > > >Cheers, > > > >Pat Naughtin CAMS > >Geelong, Australia > > > >on 2002-10-07 20.24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> In a message dated 2002-10-07 01:34:08 Eastern Daylight Time, > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> > >>> It is very difficult to get the headers of one's emails to give ISO 8601. > >>> Outlook Express always seems to use MMM-DD-YY and am/pm, irrespective of > >>> one's regional settings. This is the reason why John gets all these e-mails > >>> with MM-DD-YYYY and am/pm formats from abroad. I have two PC's. One has > >>> Windows 98, the new one that I use for the Internet has Windows XP. Both > >>> were set to the Dutch language and metric, YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour format in > >>> the regional settings. Yet my e-mails produced American date and time; John > >>> had informed of this. What did I do? Really weird. To start, I set my new > >>> computer to USA English. Then I changed within that format all the relevant > >>> settings: system of units, date, time, decimal marker and currency unit. > >>> And > >>> it worked! Outlook Express, always going to USA settings, accepted my > >>> modified ones. Now my e-mail headers show the YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour > >>> settings at last. > >>> > >>> Han > >> > >> That's what I did with (full featured) Outlook at work, and it works > >> perfectly. �Simply change USA-English to what it should be (on the computer > >> and in real life!) and you get exactly what you need. > >> > >> I get cm on Word, but I still can't change the default tabs (for all > >> documents) to be anything other than half an inch. �If anyone has ideas > >> please send them along. > >> > >> Carleton > >> > > > > --- Michael Payne --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.
