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Indenting The First Bullet

The Increase Indent and Decrease Indent buttons on the Formatting toolbar do not work consistently with the first bullet in a document.

 Decrease Indent - Decreases or removes the indent.

 Increase Indent - Increases the indent.

This problem occurs whenever you try and change the indentation level of the first bullet in a document.

This is applicable to both bulleted and numbered bulleted lists.

Press (File > New) to create a new document and type the following text.

Highlight the second and third lines and press the Bullets button.

Position the cursor at the beginning of the second line and press the Increase Indent button.

You will notice that the indent of the third line will also be increased

This problem will occur whenever you try and change the indentation level of the first bullet in your document.

Position the cursor at the beginning of the third line and press the Increase Indent button.

You will notice that only the third line is indented.