Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and descriptions
which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I placed the heading in
bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90 tab space I placed the
description. I'm sure there are no spaces between the colons. As they are
only single line descriptions, the customer needs that kind of alignment. Now
when I complete the page layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm
shocked to see that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of
aligning as a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could
not solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a straight
manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any option I have to
disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table doesn't work. Please help as I
have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

Have you tried putting your data in a 3 column table?
--
Kevin Backmann


"Prasant" wrote:

Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and descriptions
which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I placed the heading in
bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90 tab space I placed the
description. I'm sure there are no spaces between the colons. As they are
only single line descriptions, the customer needs that kind of alignment. Now
when I complete the page layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm
shocked to see that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of
aligning as a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could
not solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a straight
manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any option I have to
disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table doesn't work. Please help as I
have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

Did you use a decimal tab for the colon?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Prasant wrote:
Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and
descriptions which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I
placed the heading in bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90
tab space I placed the description. I'm sure there are no spaces
between the colons. As they are only single line descriptions, the
customer needs that kind of alignment. Now when I complete the page
layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm shocked to see
that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of aligning as
a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could not
solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a
straight manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any
option I have to disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table
doesn't work. Please help as I have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

Hi
Great. Table does the job.
But always we need to do in table? I have some text which I need to align
colons like same and inserting table inside a table to do that and again
aligning may create problems!!?? Is it not possible by any way only with text
without table??

"Kevin B" wrote:

Have you tried putting your data in a 3 column table?
--
Kevin Backmann


"Prasant" wrote:

Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and descriptions
which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I placed the heading in
bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90 tab space I placed the
description. I'm sure there are no spaces between the colons. As they are
only single line descriptions, the customer needs that kind of alignment. Now
when I complete the page layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm
shocked to see that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of
aligning as a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could
not solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a straight
manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any option I have to
disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table doesn't work. Please help as I
have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

Hi

I'm using " : "





"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Did you use a decimal tab for the colon?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Prasant wrote:
Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and
descriptions which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I
placed the heading in bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90
tab space I placed the description. I'm sure there are no spaces
between the colons. As they are only single line descriptions, the
customer needs that kind of alignment. Now when I complete the page
layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm shocked to see
that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of aligning as
a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could not
solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a
straight manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any
option I have to disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table
doesn't work. Please help as I have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

To clarify: you actually set separate tab stops (any kind) for the colon
itself and for the text that follows?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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Hi

I'm using " : "





"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Did you use a decimal tab for the colon?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Prasant wrote:
Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and
descriptions which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I
placed the heading in bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90
tab space I placed the description. I'm sure there are no spaces
between the colons. As they are only single line descriptions, the
customer needs that kind of alignment. Now when I complete the page
layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm shocked to see
that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of aligning as
a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could not
solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a
straight manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any
option I have to disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table
doesn't work. Please help as I have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.