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inserting dot leaders
Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the
margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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No, you have to have a tab stop to have tab leaders.
-- 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. "Patty" wrote in message ... Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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Thanks for confirming this for me. I miss the WordPerfect feature!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, you have to have a tab stop to have tab leaders. -- 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. "Patty" wrote in message ... Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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This is another example of how much more user friendly WordPerfect is than
Word. I use Word at work because I have to, but I use WordPerfect for Windows at home because it is much easier to use. "Patty" wrote: Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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I believe this is entirely a matter of personal preferences. Personally I
could never figure out WordPerfect. :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Lola" wrote: This is another example of how much more user friendly WordPerfect is than Word. I use Word at work because I have to, but I use WordPerfect for Windows at home because it is much easier to use. "Patty" wrote: Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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There were certain aspects of WordPerfect that I found utterly infuriating
(and a lot of them had to do with those much-lauded "codes"). In the end, what a Word-trained WP user would miss most are styles (WP has them but doesn't know how to use them) and line breaks. What I found infuriating was that you can't conveniently set and reset tab stops for a selection. You select the text and set the tab stops, and all is well, but if you want to move one of the tab stops, you can't just click in a paragraph and do it because that inserts a code at the insertion point, and the change is effective only from that point forward. And you can't reselect the initial selection because when you do, you're inside (or outside, whichever it takes) the "codes," and so what you see on the ruler is the default tab stops, not the ones you set for the selection. That frustration alone was enough to drive me to distraction because I tend to type first, then set the tab stops when I can see where they need to go, but I may fine-tune them later. WordPerfect is ideal for legal offices where everything is done in Courier New and all tabs are half an inch and no one really cares how awful anything looks (huge gaping spaces between numbers and text in numbered paragraphs, for example). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... I believe this is entirely a matter of personal preferences. Personally I could never figure out WordPerfect. :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Lola" wrote: This is another example of how much more user friendly WordPerfect is than Word. I use Word at work because I have to, but I use WordPerfect for Windows at home because it is much easier to use. "Patty" wrote: Is there anyway to insert dot leaders at the end of a line of text to the margin without setting up a new tab? (I'm an ex-WordPerfect user, and I used this feature all the time. But I haven't been able to find it in Word.) |
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I've not launched any version of WP in *years* :-) Does the current version
still insert a separate instance of the Ruler for every variation in Tab Stops & Indents throughout the document? What a clutter! The program definitely had its strong points, and compared to Word Star it was a godsend. But unfortunately it did not [IMHO] make a very graceful or functional migration to the world of graphic user interfaces. For those who learned early on to master its intricacies I can understand the feeling of "control", but for anyone unpracticed with a command/code driven environment it was still an absolute nightmare... And slapping a graphic interface on it just made things worse. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/26/09 9:37 AM, in article , "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There were certain aspects of WordPerfect that I found utterly infuriating (and a lot of them had to do with those much-lauded "codes"). In the end, what a Word-trained WP user would miss most are styles (WP has them but doesn't know how to use them) and line breaks. What I found infuriating was that you can't conveniently set and reset tab stops for a selection. You select the text and set the tab stops, and all is well, but if you want to move one of the tab stops, you can't just click in a paragraph and do it because that inserts a code at the insertion point, and the change is effective only from that point forward. And you can't reselect the initial selection because when you do, you're inside (or outside, whichever it takes) the "codes," and so what you see on the ruler is the default tab stops, not the ones you set for the selection. That frustration alone was enough to drive me to distraction because I tend to type first, then set the tab stops when I can see where they need to go, but I may fine-tune them later. WordPerfect is ideal for legal offices where everything is done in Courier New and all tabs are half an inch and no one really cares how awful anything looks (huge gaping spaces between numbers and text in numbered paragraphs, for example). |
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I agree that the UI was not very attractive, though in many ways quite
functional. The version that was especially clunky was the DOS version 6.0 (I think it was) that attempted to be WYSIWYG (at least in one view). One thing that was/is superior about WP wrt tabs, however, is that you can right-click (IIRC) on a tab stop on the ruler and select tab leaders from a dropdown menu instead of having to go to the Tabs dialog as in Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . I've not launched any version of WP in *years* :-) Does the current version still insert a separate instance of the Ruler for every variation in Tab Stops & Indents throughout the document? What a clutter! The program definitely had its strong points, and compared to Word Star it was a godsend. But unfortunately it did not [IMHO] make a very graceful or functional migration to the world of graphic user interfaces. For those who learned early on to master its intricacies I can understand the feeling of "control", but for anyone unpracticed with a command/code driven environment it was still an absolute nightmare... And slapping a graphic interface on it just made things worse. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/26/09 9:37 AM, in article , "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There were certain aspects of WordPerfect that I found utterly infuriating (and a lot of them had to do with those much-lauded "codes"). In the end, what a Word-trained WP user would miss most are styles (WP has them but doesn't know how to use them) and line breaks. What I found infuriating was that you can't conveniently set and reset tab stops for a selection. You select the text and set the tab stops, and all is well, but if you want to move one of the tab stops, you can't just click in a paragraph and do it because that inserts a code at the insertion point, and the change is effective only from that point forward. And you can't reselect the initial selection because when you do, you're inside (or outside, whichever it takes) the "codes," and so what you see on the ruler is the default tab stops, not the ones you set for the selection. That frustration alone was enough to drive me to distraction because I tend to type first, then set the tab stops when I can see where they need to go, but I may fine-tune them later. WordPerfect is ideal for legal offices where everything is done in Courier New and all tabs are half an inch and no one really cares how awful anything looks (huge gaping spaces between numbers and text in numbered paragraphs, for example). |
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I also liked the versatility of being able to use any combination of
characters for custom leaders such as ox or x‹ or whatever. I still miss that capability in both PC/Mac Word. The bottom line is that both apps have their good/bad points, but the biggest distinction is that they're just *different*. I did a lot of training for SSA as well as a number of others several years ago when many made "the big switch" & the hardest obstacle to overcome was the unwillingness of users to accept that fact... They wanted Word to be WP with a different name :-) It's really difficult to comprehend why people insist on being able to hunt for *sets* of control codes rather than simply selecting text & looking at a button or a plain English explanation. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/26/09 11:16 AM, in article , "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I agree that the UI was not very attractive, though in many ways quite functional. The version that was especially clunky was the DOS version 6.0 (I think it was) that attempted to be WYSIWYG (at least in one view). One thing that was/is superior about WP wrt tabs, however, is that you can right-click (IIRC) on a tab stop on the ruler and select tab leaders from a dropdown menu instead of having to go to the Tabs dialog as in Word. |
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Yes, the custom leaders are a great idea, though I'm not sure how often they
actually get used. I'm always a little skeptical of claims that problems can be sorted out by examining the "codes," since the kinds of problems people encounter in Word are often much more subtle. Or they're things that are quite obvious, but even when you tell people where to look for the solution, they claim to have done it with no effect, and then when they send you the document to look at, you see that the problem is *exactly* what you said it was, and obviously they *didn't* look at or do whatever it was you told them to look at or do. g -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CyberTaz" wrote in message .. . I also liked the versatility of being able to use any combination of characters for custom leaders such as ox or x or whatever. I still miss that capability in both PC/Mac Word. The bottom line is that both apps have their good/bad points, but the biggest distinction is that they're just *different*. I did a lot of training for SSA as well as a number of others several years ago when many made "the big switch" & the hardest obstacle to overcome was the unwillingness of users to accept that fact... They wanted Word to be WP with a different name :-) It's really difficult to comprehend why people insist on being able to hunt for *sets* of control codes rather than simply selecting text & looking at a button or a plain English explanation. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/26/09 11:16 AM, in article , "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I agree that the UI was not very attractive, though in many ways quite functional. The version that was especially clunky was the DOS version 6.0 (I think it was) that attempted to be WYSIWYG (at least in one view). One thing that was/is superior about WP wrt tabs, however, is that you can right-click (IIRC) on a tab stop on the ruler and select tab leaders from a dropdown menu instead of having to go to the Tabs dialog as in Word. |
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