24. A computerized method for automatically identifying special characters that delineate outline-type formatting of paragraphs and inserting hanging indents, said method comprising the steps of: retrieving words on a line; identifying a bullet character; determining a left boundary and a right boundary of the bullet character; determining a left boundary of a first word to the right of the bullet character; comparing the left boundary of the bullet character to leftmost boundaries of other words on preceding lines of a previous paragraph; and setting an outline level based on the comparing step and a position for the hanging indent at the left boundary of the first word.
25. The computerized method of claim 24 further comprising the steps of: storing the left and right boundaries of the bullet character and the left boundary of the first word; and repeating the steps of retrieving, identifying, determining the left boundary and right boundary, determining the left boundary of the first word, comparing, setting, and storing for each additional line of words.