[Bob S]

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