How to change the indenting in word 2011 Mac?

It used to be nice indentation, now it is defaulted to put A LOT of extra space between your letter/number/bullet and the sentence following it. In addition to this problem, the bullets/numbers/letters themselves are also spaced about twice as far to the right as they used to be. The look is pretty ugly and completely unreadable, it defeats the whole purpose of outlining, which is to make it easy to find the denominations at a glance. Anyone know how to change the default back to what it was for Word 2008 on Mac and before? I will be seriously impressed if anyone can answer this question, who knows why they would ruin outlines, maybe so people pay for expensive workshops, books, phone calls, emails and advice, but I doubt that the 'experts' could answer even this very simple question no matter what kind of money I threw at them. Maybe I should just go back to Word 2008, they let you put whatever characters you wanted in your file titles, they defaulted titles to the first text of your document instead of making you copy and paste it, and so on, it was a better program. The ribbon is useless because the styles are useless, they all have the same problems and I don't have enough faith to spend hours exploring the ribbon if they can't get something as simple as an outline indentation default or its modification right. Yes, I'm ticked. Why do programmers always make programs worse? Oh, forgot, no million dollar software 'help' industry without countless unecessary problems masquerading as 'improvements'.