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30 Character Magic
I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters,
including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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30 Character Magic
I might be wrong on this guess, but it sounds as if you're attempting to
create a fill-in form object. If thats the case, I've had the same problem that you're currently experiencing and it made my life much easier when I abandoned the traditional paragraph approach and used a 2 or 3 column table, with the first column contining my fill-in prompts (First Name:, Address:, etc...) and then using the border function to only place a border at the bottom of the fill-in cells of the table. -- Kevin Backmann "Divelucaya" wrote: I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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30 Character Magic
The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using
Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this would be the same as a tab leader. Unfortunately, I have this and others like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I don't like getting into nested tables. The document is already quite busy at it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole document off. "Kevin B" wrote: I might be wrong on this guess, but it sounds as if you're attempting to create a fill-in form object. If thats the case, I've had the same problem that you're currently experiencing and it made my life much easier when I abandoned the traditional paragraph approach and used a 2 or 3 column table, with the first column contining my fill-in prompts (First Name:, Address:, etc...) and then using the border function to only place a border at the bottom of the fill-in cells of the table. -- Kevin Backmann "Divelucaya" wrote: I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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