I am having trouble readin your post there are a lot of extra symbols ?
and ¶ icon
so I am confused as to what exactly to do??
also, I cannot remove the text block name/address etc,, the table is dense
in information
I can send you a copy of the .doc so you can see what I mean.
"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
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Some tips that may help you:
The ?oblack boxes? 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 ?oblack
boxes?
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 ?oIndentation? settings in Format Paragraph
Indents
and Spacing tab.
Couldn?Tt you change the table layout so that you add the ?ostatic?
text
(name, address, etc.) in a row above or a column to the left of the data?
You
should skip the text box solution!
I suggest that you read Shauna Kelly?Ts articles (e.g. about styles and
tables) at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
See also:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm
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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
"*muffin*" wrote:
I made a whole page of tables for filling in genealogy information on a
person.
MOST of the tables are working fine with the text. but for some reason I
cannot TAB over to some where the text is correct. lemme try to
explain:
when I tab to one table to the next in some of them are 'black' boxes,
(which sometimes this works ok, as I can delete the whole box to put in
new
information) but, most of these are in the wrong spot INSIDE the table,
I
want the text to start over several spaces, to get this I have to keep
clicking the space bar to start it where I want.
in other boxes this works ok , it starts where I want (NO black box,,
only
a curser bar), ALSO when I click on each individual table box it MOST
DO go
to where I want it,
still other problems when I TAB over say I have the text set at 8
(which
it says when I individually click on it, but when I TAB over to it the
text
is at 12! I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong & how to fix all
this
so each table is what I want in font size & position of text!
also on some tables when I Tab over I cannot SEE the curser (when I
click
individually it shows up!), but it will type in correctly.
arrghhhhhhhhh.
to make all this more complicated I wanted little text boxes in each
table
that did not move like the words "name" "address" "birthdate" etc. I
could
only figure out I had to put individual text boxes in each table & send
it
BEHIND the table so it wouldn't be affected by what I typed IN each box,
this seems to work OK, but there has to be an easier way, I could not
find
where you could 'lock' in a text block (or something like that) so it
would
stay... did I miss something?
please help. its driving me nuts to keep changing all this each time I
type
in!.