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Showing how many pixels there are from the margin to the cursor.
I have some text written in Office 2003 that I would like to properly line
up. The text is written in Times New Roman 12-pt, and it's in a sort of outline format, like so: 2.1. Which of the following numbers... a. 120 b. 132 c. 34 Now, I want the a's b's and c's to line up directly under the start of the W in the word What. I know that I can line up the cursor in front of the a, press the Alt key to get more precision, and move the margin tab thingy to the right myself and sort of eyeball it. I then rapidly press the up and down arrows and the cursor goes back and forth from the start of the a to the W and back to see if the position of the cursor changes from line to line. Unfortunately, this is a very tedious process and I wonder if a better solution exists. I was thinking maybe when I line up the cursor right in front of the W, if it could just tell me exactly how many pixels away from the margin it is (is there an option to make the At " part of the status bar be changed to pixels instead of inches?), I could simply change it to exactly that value (and therefore the "eyeballing" process would be unnecessary). Can anybody help me with this? |
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You need to set the "Aligned at" position of Level 2 to the same setting as
the "Tab space after" and "Indent at" settings of Level 1. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BigDaddyCool" wrote in message ... I have some text written in Office 2003 that I would like to properly line up. The text is written in Times New Roman 12-pt, and it's in a sort of outline format, like so: 2.1. Which of the following numbers... a. 120 b. 132 c. 34 Now, I want the a's b's and c's to line up directly under the start of the W in the word What. I know that I can line up the cursor in front of the a, press the Alt key to get more precision, and move the margin tab thingy to the right myself and sort of eyeball it. I then rapidly press the up and down arrows and the cursor goes back and forth from the start of the a to the W and back to see if the position of the cursor changes from line to line. Unfortunately, this is a very tedious process and I wonder if a better solution exists. I was thinking maybe when I line up the cursor right in front of the W, if it could just tell me exactly how many pixels away from the margin it is (is there an option to make the At " part of the status bar be changed to pixels instead of inches?), I could simply change it to exactly that value (and therefore the "eyeballing" process would be unnecessary). Can anybody help me with this? |
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Showing how many pixels there are from the margin to the cursor.
And, although you won't now need it, the "At" on the status bar uses the
measurement units specified under Tools Options General tab - points is what you want (pixels depends on the monitor). -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You need to set the "Aligned at" position of Level 2 to the same setting as the "Tab space after" and "Indent at" settings of Level 1. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BigDaddyCool" wrote in message ... I have some text written in Office 2003 that I would like to properly line up. The text is written in Times New Roman 12-pt, and it's in a sort of outline format, like so: 2.1. Which of the following numbers... a. 120 b. 132 c. 34 Now, I want the a's b's and c's to line up directly under the start of the W in the word What. I know that I can line up the cursor in front of the a, press the Alt key to get more precision, and move the margin tab thingy to the right myself and sort of eyeball it. I then rapidly press the up and down arrows and the cursor goes back and forth from the start of the a to the W and back to see if the position of the cursor changes from line to line. Unfortunately, this is a very tedious process and I wonder if a better solution exists. I was thinking maybe when I line up the cursor right in front of the W, if it could just tell me exactly how many pixels away from the margin it is (is there an option to make the At " part of the status bar be changed to pixels instead of inches?), I could simply change it to exactly that value (and therefore the "eyeballing" process would be unnecessary). Can anybody help me with this? |
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"You need to set the "Aligned at" position of Level 2 to the same setting as
the "Tab space after" and "Indent at" settings of Level 1." And how do I do that exactly? |
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In the Format | Bullets and Numbering | Outline Numbered dialog. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BigDaddyCool" wrote in message ... "You need to set the "Aligned at" position of Level 2 to the same setting as the "Tab space after" and "Indent at" settings of Level 1." And how do I do that exactly? |
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