Jon wrote:
1. How do I make trailing dots? Say I write Comments on a form and
want to write trailing dots until the right hand side of the page.
Set a right-aligned tab stop at the right margin, and give it a dot
'leader'. To do this, open the Tabs dialog (Alt+O, T), type in the distance
from the left margin to the right margin, click the Right option and the dot
leader option, and click OK. [Note: Don't use the Tabs button in the
Paragraph dialog; see
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...672447?hl=en.]
Then press the Tab key to insert a tab character between the text on the
left and on the right.
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm discusses this, but
hasn't been updated for Word 2007.
2. Sometimes I have a bit of a problem making an underline that runs
from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Has this
issue happened to anyone else?
Is there a shortcut for making this line straight away?
Turn on the top or bottom border of a paragraph. On the Home tab of the
ribbon, the Borders button is the rightmost in the bottom row of the
Paragraph group. A shortcut is to type three or more hyphens in an empty
paragraph and then hit Enter. This depends on having 'Border lines' checked
in Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options
AutoFormat As You Type, but those options are troublemakers best turned off
(
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...utoFormat.htm).
3. How do I create checkboxes (preferably quickly)?
The 'legacy controls' (protected form fields and ActiveX controls) are on
the Developer tab of the ribbon, which you can enable in Office button
Word Options Popular. If you use form field check boxes, you need to
'protect the document for forms', which disables a lot of Word's functions.
ActiveX controls have some other nasty side effects.
If the check boxes will be used only in Word 2007, and not sent to anyone
using an earlier version, try Greg Maxey's add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm.
4. How do I create frames of text/pictures? This is because I might
want text to be aligned within a particular frame in the form of a
newspaper for example.
I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you want to put a frame _around_
text, there's an Insert Frame button among the legacy controls mentioned in
#3 -- select the text and click the button.
5. How do I review the Style settings? Basically I want to
create/update styles for Heading 1, Heading 2 etc, because on my
version only Heading 1 seems to exist, and, after scrolling about a
bit 'Heading 2' appeared.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S or click the tiny arrow button at the right end of
the name bar of the Styles group on the Home ribbon. That opens the Styles
pane. Click the Options link in the bottom right and choose to display All
Styles and list them alphabetically. Then you can right-click any style and
choose Modify.
You can also click the third of the three similar buttons at the bottom --
the tooltip says Manage Styles -- and choose which styles appear in the
gallery and in what order.
Word 2007
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
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