WD: Tabs and Paragraph Commands Unavailable in Some Views (111072)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a
- Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q111072 SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Word, the Tabs and Paragraph commands are unavailable (dimmed)
on the Format menu in document or outline view.
In contrast, the Tabs and Paragraph items are available on the list that
appears when you click Format in the Modify Style dialog box. (To open the
Modify Style dialog box, click Style on the Format menu and then click
Modify.) However, if you select Tabs from the list that appears when you
click Format, nothing happens. If you select Paragraph from the same list,
the Format Paragraph dialog box appears. If you then click Tabs, however,
the Format Tabs dialog box does not open, and the Format Paragraph dialog
box closes.
CAUSE
The availability of many Word commands depends on settings such as the view
you select on the View menu or the options you set under the View tab in
the Options (or Preferences in Word 98) dialog box under the Tools menu.
For example, many commands are unavailable if you lock your document by
clicking the Lock Document button on the Master Document toolbar. If a
command is inappropriate or not applicable to a particular view, it is
unavailable when you are in that view.
WORKAROUND
If you want to apply Tabs or direct paragraph formatting, switch to normal
or page layout view.
MORE INFORMATION
There are certain direct paragraph formatting commands that you can access
such as Borders and Shading when in outline or master document view. When
you select the formatting, it is not shown on the screen and is not printed
but it is shown on the screen in print preview.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 8/16/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbformat kbprb KB111072 |
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