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Controlling space sizes of letters?
Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns
of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. |
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sdlfkj wrote:
Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. That is purely a matter of which font you apply to the text. Most fonts are "proportional", in which different letters have different widths. Only a relative few are "nonproportional" or fixed-width. The most commonly available nonproportional fonts are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter. However, in many nonproportional fonts the digits are all the same width so that they will line up in columns, as long as you get the rightmost digits to align. The tool to make that happen is the decimal tab. At the left end of the horizontal ruler is a button with what looks like a bold L on it. Click that button several times until you get an upside-down T with a dot. Then click on the ruler at the position where the units digit should align. Then press the Tab key and enter your number; hit Enter, hit Tab, enter the next number; etc. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more info. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical
widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. That is purely a matter of which font you apply to the text. Most fonts are "proportional", in which different letters have different widths. Only a relative few are "nonproportional" or fixed-width. The most commonly available nonproportional fonts are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter. However, in many nonproportional fonts the digits are all the same width so that they will line up in columns, as long as you get the rightmost digits to align. The tool to make that happen is the decimal tab. At the left end of the horizontal ruler is a button with what looks like a bold L on it. Click that button several times until you get an upside-down T with a dot. Then click on the ruler at the position where the units digit should align. Then press the Tab key and enter your number; hit Enter, hit Tab, enter the next number; etc. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more info. That's some good info. Thanks. Of course it would be nice to be able to click View, non-proportional with any font I'm using.....but hey........that would be too easy. |
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sdlfkj wrote:
Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. That is purely a matter of which font you apply to the text. Most fonts are "proportional", in which different letters have different widths. Only a relative few are "nonproportional" or fixed-width. The most commonly available nonproportional fonts are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter. However, in many nonproportional fonts the digits are all the same width so that they will line up in columns, as long as you get the rightmost digits to align. The tool to make that happen is the decimal tab. At the left end of the horizontal ruler is a button with what looks like a bold L on it. Click that button several times until you get an upside-down T with a dot. Then click on the ruler at the position where the units digit should align. Then press the Tab key and enter your number; hit Enter, hit Tab, enter the next number; etc. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more info. That's some good info. Thanks. Of course it would be nice to be able to click View, non-proportional with any font I'm using.....but hey........that would be too easy. You can *view* a nonproportional representation of text in any font by (a) going to Tools Options View and checking the box for "Draft font" and then (b) switching to Normal view if it isn't already chosen. However, it still won't *print* that way. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Word is about printing, not viewing. The only way to change what you see is
to change what will print. -- 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. "sdlfkj" wrote in message ... Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. That is purely a matter of which font you apply to the text. Most fonts are "proportional", in which different letters have different widths. Only a relative few are "nonproportional" or fixed-width. The most commonly available nonproportional fonts are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter. However, in many nonproportional fonts the digits are all the same width so that they will line up in columns, as long as you get the rightmost digits to align. The tool to make that happen is the decimal tab. At the left end of the horizontal ruler is a button with what looks like a bold L on it. Click that button several times until you get an upside-down T with a dot. Then click on the ruler at the position where the units digit should align. Then press the Tab key and enter your number; hit Enter, hit Tab, enter the next number; etc. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more info. That's some good info. Thanks. Of course it would be nice to be able to click View, non-proportional with any font I'm using.....but hey........that would be too easy. |
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Is it possible to have each letter and number occupy identical
widths? IOW, i and W take up the same space. I am compiling columns of numbers and it would handy if I could control this without bothering with tables, etc. That is purely a matter of which font you apply to the text. Most fonts are "proportional", in which different letters have different widths. Only a relative few are "nonproportional" or fixed-width. The most commonly available nonproportional fonts are Courier New and Lucida Sans Typewriter. However, in many nonproportional fonts the digits are all the same width so that they will line up in columns, as long as you get the rightmost digits to align. The tool to make that happen is the decimal tab. At the left end of the horizontal ruler is a button with what looks like a bold L on it. Click that button several times until you get an upside-down T with a dot. Then click on the ruler at the position where the units digit should align. Then press the Tab key and enter your number; hit Enter, hit Tab, enter the next number; etc. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more info. That's some good info. Thanks. Of course it would be nice to be able to click View, non-proportional with any font I'm using.....but hey........that would be too easy. Word is about printing, not viewing. The only way to change what you see is to change what will print. You always get to the point Suzanne. That's an excellent way of looking at it. As the printing is the end result that has to take priority. |
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