On some machines I work with, the tab button serves to indent an outline. So if I have say:

1)
2)

and my cursor is right before the "2" and I hit tab, I get something like:

1)
tabbingi)

On other machines, the tab works as it does in other places, i.e., it just moves the cursor over to the right a bunch.

I'd like the tab function to perform the way it does in the first example. Is there a way to "fix" the machines where it does not behave this way? And this is travel related because when traveling I often find myself using a variety of different computers with different Word settings. Gracias!