j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a
form and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but
not longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I
can find no way to get both.
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm
Very good. Thanks to you and macropod. One hurdle. The
instructions state "the width can be adjusted by dragging the
paragraph's left and/or right indent markers." Using my example
above, moving the indent marker results in the whole line moving,
thus NAME: _______________________________________ becomes
NAME: __________________________________________
the 'name' text moves along with the indent. What am I missing?
The comment about the indent markers applies only to lines created
with paragraph borders, not to any other kind of line. If you have
any text before or after the line, you obviously aren't using a
paragraph border. The article describes four other methods of making
lines. I'll guess
that you used method 4 or 5, involving tabs. In that case, adjust
the line length by moving the tab stop markers on the ruler.
You are correct. I suspect one problem is I don't know what a 'tab
stop marker' is. I see the margin ruler but that's it.
Tab stop markers are marks that appear on the ruler when you set tab stops
(seems a little obvious), either by clicking on the ruler or by using the
Format Tabs dialog. There are several shapes: a thick L shape for a
left-aligned tab, a backwards L for a right-aligned tab, and an upside-down
T for a center-aligned tab (plus a few less common variants).
Read
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm for
explanations.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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