Hope you have solved some of your table problems. Below, I will try to answer
your recent questions:
The ¶ symbol at the end of each paragraph:
When you have turned on formatting marks (by clicking the ¶ icon in the
Standard toolbar), not only spaces but many other types of non-printing
characters become visible. The ¶ symbol at the end of each paragraph
indicates the end of the paragraph but it also holds all the settings that
apply to the paragraph. The ¶ symbols and other formatting marks become
invisible again if you click the ¶ icon in the Standard toolbar again (it is
a toggle button that turns the marks on and off). Actually, the formatting
marks are really helpful once you get used to work with documents with the
marks turned on (for example, you can _see_ section breaks codes and page
break codes when the formatting marks are shown).
For more details about formatting marks, see this article:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm
Using the Tab key versus the arrow keys.
The Tab key jumps to the next cell in a table and, at the same time,
_selects_ (highlights/makes black) the contents of that cell. Therefore, it
is practical to use the Tab key if you are going to _replace_ the contents in
the next cell - just start typing, and the previous contents will be
replaced. Note that if you are in the last cell in that last row of a table
when you press the Tab key, a new row will be added to the table.
The left/right arrow keys moves the insertion point one character at a time
(unless you also press and hold Ctrl and/or Shift). If the insertion point is
at the end of a cell, pressing the left arrow key will move the insertion
point to the start of the next cell _without selecting_ the text. The up and
down arrows move up or down without selecting text.
This way, you can use either the Tab key or the arrow keys depending on what
you want to do next. They are not supposed to work the same way.
The disappearing cursor:
One thing that could result in the cursor disappearing is _negative_ left
and/or right indentation in a table cell (will cause the text to exceed the
cell borders - the cursor will be hidden if placed in the invisible text).
You could check the left and right indentation below Indentation in Format
Paragraph Indents and Spacing tab.
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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
"*muffin*" wrote:
Ok, must have been my newsreader that had al those characters..... strange.
I went to the google site to look up this thread & read what you put.
interesting about the ........(spaces)
I started deleting those.. I see a BUNCH of the ¶ end of paragraph mark.
what exactly are those ( I tired figuring it out through HELP..... but not
much help...hmm) & how do I get rid of them?
I'll play around with this to see if I can get a better document.
question though it seems like theup.down/right/left arrow keys work a heck
of a lot better than hitting TAB to go from table to table, is this supposed
to be so? or should I still work on fixing all the little things?
also, I still get the disappearing curser in some of the table fields when I
go to them (by arrow key or tab) what is this??
thanks a bunch!
"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
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Some tips that may help you:
The â?oblack boxesâ? that appear when you tab:
Try to turn on formatting marks (click the ¶ icon in the Standard
toolbar)
so that you can see spaces and other non-printing character (spaces are
shown
as small dots). From you explanation, my guess is that the â?oblack
boxesâ?
appear where you have typed a lot of spaces.
In general, you should never use a series of spaces to indent text. You
should instead use the â?oIndentationâ? settings in Format Paragraph
Indents
and Spacing tab.