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Suzanne, I like underlined tabs but one thing I find very annoying is that
the height of the line is different that for underlined words. I'd like to create a template which underlines the text of a word and then fills the remaining space with a blank underline, but underlined text appears at a different height than an underline tab. Thus I have to resort to underlined spaces and manually adjust the length of the spaces based on the length of the text on the line each time. Suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word does not by default underline trailing spaces (there is a Compatibility Option you can set to make it do so). It will underline a series of spaces ending in a nonbreak space, but a much better way to create the underline is to use a tab with an underline leader or an underlined tab. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Instead of the double underlines, you might use a paragraph border; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- 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. "Bevatron" wrote in message ... I can't get underling or double underline to show in Word 2002 without placing punctuation after it. I use underline for signature lines on legal documents and double underline as a separater on pages. How can I fix this? Thank you. |
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That this difference exists is good to hear, but I don't know what an
"underlined tab character" is. Even when I type that phrase into Word Help its first return is about a tab with underline leader. Can you help explain? Thanks so much. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: An underlined tab character should have the same line as underlined text. A tab with an underline leader will have a different underline because it uses the underline character (Shift+Hyphen on the keyboard). -- 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. "Bill Connors" Bill wrote in message ... Suzanne, I like underlined tabs but one thing I find very annoying is that the height of the line is different that for underlined words. I'd like to create a template which underlines the text of a word and then fills the remaining space with a blank underline, but underlined text appears at a different height than an underline tab. Thus I have to resort to underlined spaces and manually adjust the length of the spaces based on the length of the text on the line each time. Suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word does not by default underline trailing spaces (there is a Compatibility Option you can set to make it do so). It will underline a series of spaces ending in a nonbreak space, but a much better way to create the underline is to use a tab with an underline leader or an underlined tab. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Instead of the double underlines, you might use a paragraph border; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- 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. "Bevatron" wrote in message ... I can't get underling or double underline to show in Word 2002 without placing punctuation after it. I use underline for signature lines on legal documents and double underline as a separater on pages. How can I fix this? Thank you. |
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Never mind, I just figured out what you meant: turn on underlining and then
press Tab, right? Thanks again, I'll try that instead with a right tab. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: An underlined tab character should have the same line as underlined text. A tab with an underline leader will have a different underline because it uses the underline character (Shift+Hyphen on the keyboard). -- 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. "Bill Connors" Bill wrote in message ... Suzanne, I like underlined tabs but one thing I find very annoying is that the height of the line is different that for underlined words. I'd like to create a template which underlines the text of a word and then fills the remaining space with a blank underline, but underlined text appears at a different height than an underline tab. Thus I have to resort to underlined spaces and manually adjust the length of the spaces based on the length of the text on the line each time. Suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word does not by default underline trailing spaces (there is a Compatibility Option you can set to make it do so). It will underline a series of spaces ending in a nonbreak space, but a much better way to create the underline is to use a tab with an underline leader or an underlined tab. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Instead of the double underlines, you might use a paragraph border; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- 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. "Bevatron" wrote in message ... I can't get underling or double underline to show in Word 2002 without placing punctuation after it. I use underline for signature lines on legal documents and double underline as a separater on pages. How can I fix this? Thank you. |
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Precisely. Or select the tab character and press Ctrl+U (easy if you display
nonprinting characters, as I always do). -- 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. "Bill Connors" wrote in message news  Never mind, I just figured out what you meant: turn on underlining and then press Tab, right? Thanks again, I'll try that instead with a right tab. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: An underlined tab character should have the same line as underlined text. A tab with an underline leader will have a different underline because it uses the underline character (Shift+Hyphen on the keyboard). -- 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. "Bill Connors" Bill wrote in message ... Suzanne, I like underlined tabs but one thing I find very annoying is that the height of the line is different that for underlined words. I'd like to create a template which underlines the text of a word and then fills the remaining space with a blank underline, but underlined text appears at a different height than an underline tab. Thus I have to resort to underlined spaces and manually adjust the length of the spaces based on the length of the text on the line each time. Suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word does not by default underline trailing spaces (there is a Compatibility Option you can set to make it do so). It will underline a series of spaces ending in a nonbreak space, but a much better way to create the underline is to use a tab with an underline leader or an underlined tab. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Instead of the double underlines, you might use a paragraph border; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- 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. "Bevatron" wrote in message ... I can't get underling or double underline to show in Word 2002 without placing punctuation after it. I use underline for signature lines on legal documents and double underline as a separater on pages. How can I fix this? Thank you. |
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