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How to align text left, center, right?
I have 3 fields in the footer of a template (name, title, date). The
date is a date field. The name and title are custom document variables. I would like all 3 on the same line in the footer with the name left justified, the date right justified, and the title centered in the remaining space. The name may be short or quite long. Same with the title. Some examples: nnnnnnnn tttttttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnn ttttttttttttttttttt mm/dd/yy Is there a way to do that? The document has 7-8 sections each with a different footer. What I have been doing is defining two tabs: one at the right margin and one about in the center. Then, after I set the document variables, I manually edit the footers in each section and adjust the center tab. Is there a way to do that automatically? Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
Not with a variable pitch font.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... I have 3 fields in the footer of a template (name, title, date). The date is a date field. The name and title are custom document variables. I would like all 3 on the same line in the footer with the name left justified, the date right justified, and the title centered in the remaining space. The name may be short or quite long. Same with the title. Some examples: nnnnnnnn tttttttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnn ttttttttttttttttttt mm/dd/yy Is there a way to do that? The document has 7-8 sections each with a different footer. What I have been doing is defining two tabs: one at the right margin and one about in the center. Then, after I set the document variables, I manually edit the footers in each section and adjust the center tab. Is there a way to do that automatically? Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
There's a way to do this, but it's a bit finicking:
1. Format the paragraph as Justified. 2. Type the name. Use nonbreaking spaces between words. Follow the name with an ordinary space. 3. Type the title, again using nonbreaking spaces internally and an ordinary space at the end. 4. Type the date, again using nonbreaking spaces (if any). 5. Press Shift+Enter. 6. If the blank line thus produced causes a problem, select just the paragraph mark and format it as 1 point or Hidden. -- 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. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... I have 3 fields in the footer of a template (name, title, date). The date is a date field. The name and title are custom document variables. I would like all 3 on the same line in the footer with the name left justified, the date right justified, and the title centered in the remaining space. The name may be short or quite long. Same with the title. Some examples: nnnnnnnn tttttttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnn ttttttttttttttttttt mm/dd/yy Is there a way to do that? The document has 7-8 sections each with a different footer. What I have been doing is defining two tabs: one at the right margin and one about in the center. Then, after I set the document variables, I manually edit the footers in each section and adjust the center tab. Is there a way to do that automatically? Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:27:55 +0200, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: Not with a variable pitch font. I infer that you are talking about a macro that could count the characters in the 3 fields and then divide the remaining soace equally, right? Not that I'm going to do this, but isn't there some VBA command that willr eturn the width of a text string in a given font and size? -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:51:51 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: There's a way to do this, but it's a bit finicking: 1. Format the paragraph as Justified. 2. Type the name. Use nonbreaking spaces between words. Follow the name with an ordinary space. 3. Type the title, again using nonbreaking spaces internally and an ordinary space at the end. 4. Type the date, again using nonbreaking spaces (if any). 5. Press Shift+Enter. 6. If the blank line thus produced causes a problem, select just the paragraph mark and format it as 1 point or Hidden. Now that's a clever solution. I'll fiddle around with it. Back in the "old days" on IBM mainframes, we used to have a word processor that has a "Split" command. You could enter two or more text strings separated by delimiters and the program would divide the available space evenly. This was a markup program (not wysiwyg) so we would imbed controls: ..foot on ..space 2 ..split /String one/String two/String three/String four/ ..foot off We used that one a lot. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:38:56 -0700, LurfysMa
wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:27:55 +0200, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Not with a variable pitch font. I infer that you are talking about a macro that could count the characters in the 3 fields and then divide the remaining soace equally, right? Not that I'm going to do this, but isn't there some VBA command that willr eturn the width of a text string in a given font and size? For the record, no, VBA doesn't have any "how wide is this string" function that doesn't require inserting the string first. Its big brother VB does, as do the heavy-duty languages like C++ and C#, but VBA has always been without it. Where it is available, it's a fairly complicated procedure -- you have to get a graphic context (a memory area loaded with the properties of the current printer), create a font object, pass the string and the font object to the function and get back a width in pixels, convert that to the rendering width on the page, and finally release the font and context objects. The closest you can get in VBA is to insert the string in the document and then call Selection.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelative ToTextBoundary), which returns the position of the cursor in points from the left margin. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How to align text left, center, right?
And in those days, you used fixed width fonts and you knew exactly how many
characters fitted onto one line. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:51:51 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There's a way to do this, but it's a bit finicking: 1. Format the paragraph as Justified. 2. Type the name. Use nonbreaking spaces between words. Follow the name with an ordinary space. 3. Type the title, again using nonbreaking spaces internally and an ordinary space at the end. 4. Type the date, again using nonbreaking spaces (if any). 5. Press Shift+Enter. 6. If the blank line thus produced causes a problem, select just the paragraph mark and format it as 1 point or Hidden. Now that's a clever solution. I'll fiddle around with it. Back in the "old days" on IBM mainframes, we used to have a word processor that has a "Split" command. You could enter two or more text strings separated by delimiters and the program would divide the available space evenly. This was a markup program (not wysiwyg) so we would imbed controls: .foot on .space 2 .split /String one/String two/String three/String four/ .foot off We used that one a lot. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:08:55 +0200, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: And in those days, you used fixed width fonts and you knew exactly how many characters fitted onto one line. You may be right. It's been so long. But I think we did have proportional space fonts as well. In any case, it would not be much harder for the word processor to do the "split" function with proportional space fonts than monospace. The work processor has to know "exactly how many characters will fit on a line" regardless. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
Not so - each character will have a different width eg the letter i takes up
less space than the letter w. iiiiiiiiii wwwwwwwwww The line wrap is set by a variety of factors not least of which is the current printer driver. Why make things unnecessarily difficult for yourself? Put a centre aligned tab at the centre of the page and a right aligned tab at the right margin. The texts will align to the page. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org LurfysMa wrote: In any case, it would not be much harder for the word processor to do the "split" function with proportional space fonts than monospace. The work processor has to know "exactly how many characters will fit on a line" regardless. |
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How to align text left, center, right?
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:17:25 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: LurfysMa wrote: In any case, it would not be much harder for the word processor to do the "split" function with proportional space fonts than monospace. The work processor has to know "exactly how many characters will fit on a line" regardless. Not so - each character will have a different width eg the letter i takes up less space than the letter w. Of course. That's why it's a proportional font. But each character of each font includes information on its width. The WP knows how wide the line is and it knows how wide each character is and it can add and subtract. Nothing more is needed. If this weren't so, the WP would not be able to format lines. So, to do my split function, all that is needed is for the WP to add up the widths of the three text strings, subtract that from the line length, and divide by 2. iiiiiiiiii wwwwwwwwww The line wrap is set by a variety of factors not least of which is the current printer driver. Why make things unnecessarily difficult for yourself? Put a centre aligned tab at the centre of the page and a right aligned tab at the right margin. The texts will align to the page. That won't work. The left and center strings can be very short or very wide. That's the whole problem. The left string can be wider than half the line width. I don't want the middle string centered on the line width, I want it centered on the space between the right edge of te left string and the left edge of the right string. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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How to align text left, center, right?
One scheme that might work, or at least be marginally easier, is to
use a one-row three-column table in the footer. Make the table width 100% and turn off borders. Put in your field codes. Make the left column left aligned, drag the width small, and turn off text wrapping. Make the center column center aligned. Make the right column right aligned, drag the width small, and turn off text wrapping. If you are really lucky, when you later evaluate the fields the left and right table columns will expand to fit their contents and everything will work like magic. If you are less lucky at least you will only have to drag the column edges to make the left and right cells minimum size for their contents, which might be easier than trying to position the center tab stop. Bob S On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:29:59 -0700, LurfysMa wrote: I have 3 fields in the footer of a template (name, title, date). The date is a date field. The name and title are custom document variables. I would like all 3 on the same line in the footer with the name left justified, the date right justified, and the title centered in the remaining space. The name may be short or quite long. Same with the title. Some examples: nnnnnnnn tttttttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ttttt mm/dd/yy nnnnnnn ttttttttttttttttttt mm/dd/yy Is there a way to do that? The document has 7-8 sections each with a different footer. What I have been doing is defining two tabs: one at the right margin and one about in the center. Then, after I set the document variables, I manually edit the footers in each section and adjust the center tab. Is there a way to do that automatically? Thanks |
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