Pressing tab to indent a list moves to the next table cell
I have a list (e.g., a bulleted list) in Microsoft Word. This list is inside a table cell. When I press Tab to increase the indent, rather than increasing the indent, it moves the cursor to the next cell. When I try Ctrl+Tab, it just inserts a tab character without changing the indentation of the bullet (paragraph).
How can I turn this off, so it does not go to the next cell but rather just indents the list?
4 Answers
Shift+Alt+Right Arrow Key will demote your bullet inside a table, whilst Shift+Alt+Left Arrow Key will promote your bullet.
2This is not, strictly speaking, an answer to your question, but rather a solution to your problem. You can increase the indent by clicking on the “Increase Indent” button in the “Paragraph” group on the “Home” tab of the ribbon:
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As far as I know there's no way to turn this off entirely, but the best method I've seen is the one given by Microsoft directly.
To indent inside a table cell, click in front of the text or numbers you want to indent, and then press CTRL+TAB.
When I have had to enter indents into tables I have always done this:
Enter some obscure text where you want your indents (Example: "TABTEXT")
Find and replace that text with a TAB by entering "^t" in the replace with box.
