[gatz]

I read the responses to D7666's question dated 8-9-2006 "Left and right
justified text on one line."
Thanks to Suzanne Branhill and Dave Rado, I've gotten a good part of my doc
done.

Now, I have 2-column pages set up for a home crossword dictionary using the
tab leader as suggested so that on the left is the Clue, and justifed to the
right of the column is the ANSWER, with a dotted line tab leader between.
Looks nice.

I've got a few more questions.

1) How can you make the Sorting function ignore punctuation ?
For instance, I'd like to make some (not all) entries to the crossword
dictionary that contain quotation marks. If these are placed before the
"Clue" and an Ascending Sort is done, the entries with the quotation marks
are placed at the beginning of the list. I want them to be placed in their
alphabetical order as if the quotation marks weren't there. This also
happens if an entry is made with leading dashes, such as
--- Bono. Here, the missing part of the Clue is the required ANSWER i.e., PRO

2) How can a second line be kept with a proceeding line in the Sort
function. (ignoring what appears on the subsequent line regardless of content)
For instance, a Clue would be the beginning of the entry, and the answer
would be right justified as in 1) above. However, there are occasions when
an explanation might be given to explain word origin or futher clarify the
meaning. This explanation may require the use of an additional line. Is
there a way to keep the explanation line with the Clue line during a Sort ?

3) The FAQ that was suggested by Suazanne was exactly what I was looking for
as regards to the TABS. How can these HTM pages be made "printer friendly" ?

Thanks in advance, Gatz

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The old word.mvps.org pages should be pretty printer-friendly as is. It's
the newfangled ones that don't behave so well. Well, I just looked at that
one in Print Preview and see they've screwed up even those. It used to be
that just the frame that contains the article would print. You can still
achieve that (at least in IE 6.0 and above). In Print Preview, change the
view from "As laid out on screen" to "All frames individually" and click the
Next Page button till you get to the content, of which there are three
pages. If you then click Print... and choose Pages 3-5, you'll get just
that.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"gatz" wrote in message
...
I read the responses to D7666's question dated 8-9-2006 "Left and
right
justified text on one line."
Thanks to Suzanne Branhill and Dave Rado, I've gotten a good part of my
doc
done.

Now, I have 2-column pages set up for a home crossword dictionary using
the
tab leader as suggested so that on the left is the Clue, and justifed to
the
right of the column is the ANSWER, with a dotted line tab leader between.
Looks nice.

I've got a few more questions.

1) How can you make the Sorting function ignore punctuation ?
For instance, I'd like to make some (not all) entries to the crossword
dictionary that contain quotation marks. If these are placed before the
"Clue" and an Ascending Sort is done, the entries with the quotation marks
are placed at the beginning of the list. I want them to be placed in their
alphabetical order as if the quotation marks weren't there. This also
happens if an entry is made with leading dashes, such as
--- Bono. Here, the missing part of the Clue is the required ANSWER i.e.,
PRO

2) How can a second line be kept with a proceeding line in the Sort
function. (ignoring what appears on the subsequent line regardless of
content)
For instance, a Clue would be the beginning of the entry, and the answer
would be right justified as in 1) above. However, there are occasions
when
an explanation might be given to explain word origin or futher clarify the
meaning. This explanation may require the use of an additional line. Is
there a way to keep the explanation line with the Clue line during a Sort
?

3) The FAQ that was suggested by Suazanne was exactly what I was looking
for
as regards to the TABS. How can these HTM pages be made "printer
friendly" ?

Thanks in advance, Gatz

[Jay Freedman]

Suzanne answered your question 3. I'll try for 1 and 2...

1) Word doesn't have any way to ignore punctuation, short of replacing the
entire sorting mechanism with a fairly complex macro. I would give up and
drag/drop the affected entries to the correct positions after using the
built-in sort, or maybe remove the punctuation, sort the list, and restore
the punctuation.

2) For pieces of text that should be separate lines but sort as one item,
separate them with a manual line break (Shift+Enter) instead of a paragraph
mark (Enter).

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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gatz wrote:
I read the responses to D7666's question dated 8-9-2006 "Left and
right justified text on one line."
Thanks to Suzanne Branhill and Dave Rado, I've gotten a good part of
my doc done.

Now, I have 2-column pages set up for a home crossword dictionary
using the tab leader as suggested so that on the left is the Clue,
and justifed to the right of the column is the ANSWER, with a dotted
line tab leader between. Looks nice.

I've got a few more questions.

1) How can you make the Sorting function ignore punctuation ?
For instance, I'd like to make some (not all) entries to the crossword
dictionary that contain quotation marks. If these are placed before
the "Clue" and an Ascending Sort is done, the entries with the
quotation marks are placed at the beginning of the list. I want them
to be placed in their alphabetical order as if the quotation marks
weren't there. This also happens if an entry is made with leading
dashes, such as --- Bono. Here, the missing part of the Clue is the
required ANSWER i.e., PRO

2) How can a second line be kept with a proceeding line in the Sort
function. (ignoring what appears on the subsequent line regardless of
content) For instance, a Clue would be the beginning of the entry,
and the answer would be right justified as in 1) above. However,
there are occasions when an explanation might be given to explain
word origin or futher clarify the meaning. This explanation may
require the use of an additional line. Is there a way to keep the
explanation line with the Clue line during a Sort ?

3) The FAQ that was suggested by Suazanne was exactly what I was
looking for as regards to the TABS. How can these HTM pages be made
"printer friendly" ?

Thanks in advance, Gatz

[Daiya Mitchell]

Rather than remove the punctuation, you could do some Find and Replace.
Find all quotation marks and replace them with an empty box formatted as
hidden. This will make the quotation marks hidden. Then hide text. Then
sort.


On 11/27/06 7:08 AM, "Jay Freedman" wrote:

Suzanne answered your question 3. I'll try for 1 and 2...

1) Word doesn't have any way to ignore punctuation, short of replacing the
entire sorting mechanism with a fairly complex macro. I would give up and
drag/drop the affected entries to the correct positions after using the
built-in sort, or maybe remove the punctuation, sort the list, and restore
the punctuation.


--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I thought about that, too, but it requires post-processing the index, which
it is usually desirable (but often impossible) to avoid.

--
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.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
Rather than remove the punctuation, you could do some Find and Replace.
Find all quotation marks and replace them with an empty box formatted as
hidden. This will make the quotation marks hidden. Then hide text. Then
sort.


On 11/27/06 7:08 AM, "Jay Freedman" wrote:

Suzanne answered your question 3. I'll try for 1 and 2...

1) Word doesn't have any way to ignore punctuation, short of replacing
the
entire sorting mechanism with a fairly complex macro. I would give up
and
drag/drop the affected entries to the correct positions after using the
built-in sort, or maybe remove the punctuation, sort the list, and
restore
the punctuation.


--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[Daiya Mitchell]

Ah, right. I'm not sure this person has an auto-generated index, though.

On 11/27/06 3:21 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I thought about that, too, but it requires post-processing the index, which
it is usually desirable (but often impossible) to avoid.