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Underlining - Is there a simpler way?
First, I'm not a new user. Far from it. But this is the best group
to ask this question, I think. If somebody thinks I should ask this question some where else, please just let me know. My wife thinks "There HAS to be an easier way".... to create an underlined word with spaces on both ends than the way I've grown accustomed to doing it. Assume a brand new document and you want to put the name of a person signing the document near, but not precisely, in the middle of a specifically positioned line. So, put a tab at 4" and at 5". Tab to the tab at the 5" mark. Hold the shift key down and push the left-arrow key once. At this point the area between 4" and 5" is highlighted. Press cntl-U (or click the underlined U on the icon bar) and immediately follow it up with a single right-arrow to underline the space between 4" and 5" and position your cursor at the end of the underline. That is the easy part! Now how do I type the name "Jim Anon" on that line? Note that I do not want the name "centered" on the line (if I did, I would go about this an entirely different way). I may want the name a little to the right of center or a little to the left of center. The way I normally do it, is that I (after ensuring that INSERT is on and not OVERTYPE): 1) immediately hit a single left-arrow (this takes me to the beginning of the underline) 2) type a single character (any character that will print). Note that the character is NOT underlined. 3) highlight the character and underline it with cntl-U or the underlined U icon. 4) Hit a single right-arrow (my cursor is now to the right of the character I entered). 5) Type a space and then the characters "Jim Anon" 6) Now cursor over to the left to that first character I entered and delete it with either the backspace key or the delete key (whichever you feel like using, both work). 7) Now I can insert spaces (as many as necessary) immediately to the left of the "J" (or take them out, if need be) and the word "Jim Anon" floats to the right or to the left, as appropriate, remains underlined and the underline remains on the screen for the entire inch (between 4" and 5"). But, again, my wife thinks that I'm nuts and there HAS to be an easier way that involves less key strokes. Is she right? Thanks Jim |
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