How to remove automatic tab indent from Heading 1 style?

I am using Heading 1 to format text in my document to create a section heading eg "Section 1 Introduction".

I require the heading to be on centred on 2 lines eg line 1 "Section 1" and line 2 "Introduction".

This works find to a point! But to get the "Section 1" part of the heading centred on the page, I have to remove the default tabs from my document, BECAUSE, the Heading 1 format style inserts a tab indent after the no. eg "Section 1->". This then causes all existing sytles within my document which use the default tabs to be left aligned! eg bullets, paragraph indents, no.s etc etc

How do I remove the automatic tab indent from Heading 1 style and keep the document default tabs (12.7) and thus the rest of my document formatting intact. eg stop bullets, paragraph indents, no. indents from defaulting to left aligned because default tabs dont exist!

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Answer

Suzanne S. Barnhill

You don't have to remove the default tab stops. Just remove the tab from the Heading 1 style. In the Define New Multilevel List dialog, click More to expand the dialog. Then, in the box for "Follow number with," select "Nothing" instead of "Tab character."

For another approach to this type of design, see http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/TOCTips.htm#UnnumberedHeadings.

Moreover, you should not be relying on the default tab stops in your styles, certainly not for a first-line or hanging indent, which should be defined in the style (Paragraph dialog). And bulleted paragraphs should also have the indent set in the Bullets or Multilevel List dialog; by default, a tab stop is set at the indent location for bulleted/numbered paragraphs.

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