Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The easiest way to set tab stops is on the ruler. For an explanation, with
screen shots, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm and
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm. If you use the Tabs
dialog box, you must enter a position setting for your tab stop before/after
selecting the type and before clicking OK (you can set multiple tabs in one
go if you click Set after each one). If you are using Word's default
margins, a tab stop at the right margin would be at 6".
Hi,
Those are excellent clear links to follow ... and have advancing my
problem ...
.... but I am still not getting this to work as I think it should.
My understanding and use of tabs has always been exactly as in those
links - that one should never use multiple tabs or spaces to create
long gaps for exactly the reason if the document goes somewhere else
messes up. Following those hints, I can now set a right hand tab stop
on the right margin. In this case it is a special page set up - the r/h
margin is at 18.00 cm but I do not think this is relevant. I can set
it, and split the text in the paragraphs I need to, and it does what it
should, the right text is right justified.
Fine ... but the whole reason I need to do this correctly is the global
page set up is almost certainly going to be altered from the present
18.00 cm right margin to something else. If I set up a right justified
tab at 18.00 cm - and then change the page set up to either a wider or
narrower page, the tab stop is staying fixed at 18.00 cm. My right
justfied text is either beyond the margin if the page set up is
narrower, or no longer fully to the right if the page is wider.
This is the root of the problem - it needs to stay justified with
respect to the right margin, not fixed at 18.00 cm.
I hope I am not testing your patience too much here. I have been using
Word 97 for 8 years now - and never in all that time have I got so
bogged down with something like this.
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Nick