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I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive
lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter
a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break.
I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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I agree with Suzanne. I have done this MANY times using a manual line break
and it worked flawlessly. This is a 32 page newsletter and I've used this method several times in this same issue, once for five pages. But, it certainly did not work this one instance. On the printed page three of the lines have normal leader dots at the bottom of the line. On five of the lines, the leader dots are much lighter and appear about 3/4 the way up on the capital letters that I am using. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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You learn something new everyday! I've tried this and it does work as
described. I always thought that the tab settings wouldn't repeat for successive lines, so I have always used paragraph breaks on these occasions. Terry "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:IzmLg.42754$ok5.2327@dukeread01... I agree with Suzanne. I have done this MANY times using a manual line break and it worked flawlessly. This is a 32 page newsletter and I've used this method several times in this same issue, once for five pages. But, it certainly did not work this one instance. On the printed page three of the lines have normal leader dots at the bottom of the line. On five of the lines, the leader dots are much lighter and appear about 3/4 the way up on the capital letters that I am using. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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Um, Terry, the whole idea of paragraph formatting is that it applies to the
whole paragraph. So if you set a tab in a paragraph, it's good for the whole thing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... You learn something new everyday! I've tried this and it does work as described. I always thought that the tab settings wouldn't repeat for successive lines, so I have always used paragraph breaks on these occasions. Terry "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:IzmLg.42754$ok5.2327@dukeread01... I agree with Suzanne. I have done this MANY times using a manual line break and it worked flawlessly. This is a 32 page newsletter and I've used this method several times in this same issue, once for five pages. But, it certainly did not work this one instance. On the printed page three of the lines have normal leader dots at the bottom of the line. On five of the lines, the leader dots are much lighter and appear about 3/4 the way up on the capital letters that I am using. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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I know this sounds stupid, but I thought that setting the tab, say for 6"
would only work on the first line, because on the following line it is miles past that point and won't work again until the paragraph is reset. But thinking about this logically, it was a stupid thought! And I don't know why I thought that in the first place. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Um, Terry, the whole idea of paragraph formatting is that it applies to the whole paragraph. So if you set a tab in a paragraph, it's good for the whole thing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... You learn something new everyday! I've tried this and it does work as described. I always thought that the tab settings wouldn't repeat for successive lines, so I have always used paragraph breaks on these occasions. Terry "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:IzmLg.42754$ok5.2327@dukeread01... I agree with Suzanne. I have done this MANY times using a manual line break and it worked flawlessly. This is a 32 page newsletter and I've used this method several times in this same issue, once for five pages. But, it certainly did not work this one instance. On the printed page three of the lines have normal leader dots at the bottom of the line. On five of the lines, the leader dots are much lighter and appear about 3/4 the way up on the capital letters that I am using. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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Your logic is impeccable if the text were wrapping naturally, but once you
insert a line break, then you're starting from scratch, as it were. To complicate matters, in Word you can set a tab stop outside the right margin; in WordPerfect, IIRC, if you insert a tab character at the end of a line, it wraps to the next line instead. -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... I know this sounds stupid, but I thought that setting the tab, say for 6" would only work on the first line, because on the following line it is miles past that point and won't work again until the paragraph is reset. But thinking about this logically, it was a stupid thought! And I don't know why I thought that in the first place. Terry "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Um, Terry, the whole idea of paragraph formatting is that it applies to the whole paragraph. So if you set a tab in a paragraph, it's good for the whole thing. -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... You learn something new everyday! I've tried this and it does work as described. I always thought that the tab settings wouldn't repeat for successive lines, so I have always used paragraph breaks on these occasions. Terry "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:IzmLg.42754$ok5.2327@dukeread01... I agree with Suzanne. I have done this MANY times using a manual line break and it worked flawlessly. This is a 32 page newsletter and I've used this method several times in this same issue, once for five pages. But, it certainly did not work this one instance. On the printed page three of the lines have normal leader dots at the bottom of the line. On five of the lines, the leader dots are much lighter and appear about 3/4 the way up on the capital letters that I am using. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. I don't see what that would have to do with it; there's no reason you can't create this format in a single paragraph (in fact, I have just done so in a document I'm working on, and it worked fine), and if it's a single paragraph, then the tab leader should be consistent for every line (not periods on some lines and hyphens on others). -- 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. "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message ... Each line needs to be ended in Paragraph mark and not a line break. So enter a committee position, TAB and committee name (or vice versa), Enter, each on a separate line. You should now have 8 paragraph all on separate lines. Then select all the lines and use Format, Tabs to set the Tab Leader left aligned to the point where you want the alignment. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Ed Mullikin" wrote in message news:gFhLg.42748$ok5.411@dukeread01... I had about eight names and eight committee positions to list on successive lines in a Word document. I used the manual line break after each one so that I would have only one paragraph format, if that makes any sense. I selected the leader with the lower row of dots. Half of the names tabbed to the committee position with the midlevel dots and half with the lower level dots. If I went back to the tab set function and used no leader all the dots disappeared so I know it was one paragraph. What gives? I put in a footnote saying that I didn't know the cause or they would have thought me careless. |
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