Microsoft has a tutorial Format text with styles which might be helpful place to start. The pup appears to be well trained in her special wordas she sits and waits while her confused dog sitters try to figure out just what the magic word could be. The more comprehensive fix is to understand the styles your document uses, and to improve them. The AKC defines a release word as 'a word that tells your dog he is allowed to move,' or in this case, allowed to eat. This is why the problem recurs every time you add a paragraph. But I expect that the style also specifies that the 'next paragraph' will have the same oddly-behaving style.

Your workarounds have the effect of changing the formatting or the style of the final paragraph, getting expected behaviour. What I suspect is happening is that the final paragraph of the document is set to some style with unexpected tab stops. The content of the misbehaving paragraph should change, and the tabs should work as expected now. Click in the blank space the entire paragraph will be selected. Move the pointer to the blank vertical space just to the left of the text the pointer will switch to an arrow pointing 'northeast' (up and to the right). But let me make an informed guess.įix the problem by going to the paragraph where the problem occurs. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on without seeing the document and Word itself, or maybe screenshots showing the Word window including UI when the problem is occurring, and when the problem is not occurring.

Word set tab stops