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Shauna Kelly wrote: The normal way to do this is to set a right-aligned tab at the right margin. Hi, I have returned to the problem. I get the idea of how this should work, once the right aligned tab is set, that pressing the TAB key at the right point in the paragraph will do it. But I do not see how to set a right aligned tab at the right margin. I do Format Tabs check right alignment but on press TAB the actual tab goes in the paragraph in exactly the same way as if I had not checked the right alignment box. Is there some other setting I should look at ? TIA. -- Nick |
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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". -- 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. "D7666" wrote in message oups.com... Shauna Kelly wrote: The normal way to do this is to set a right-aligned tab at the right margin. Hi, I have returned to the problem. I get the idea of how this should work, once the right aligned tab is set, that pressing the TAB key at the right point in the paragraph will do it. But I do not see how to set a right aligned tab at the right margin. I do Format Tabs check right alignment but on press TAB the actual tab goes in the paragraph in exactly the same way as if I had not checked the right alignment box. Is there some other setting I should look at ? TIA. -- Nick |
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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. -- Nick |
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Hi
The version of WordPerfect I used in about 1985 had what it called "Flush Right". That is, text was aligned at the right margin, no matter where the margin was. No version of Word has ever had that capability. It has, however, been added in Word 2007. Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "D7666" wrote in message ups.com... 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. -- Nick |
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Shauna Kelly wrote: The version of WordPerfect I used in about 1985 had what it called "Flush Right". That is, text was aligned at the right margin, no matter where the margin was. No version of Word has ever had that capability. It has, however, been added in Word 2007. Now thats interesting. Because I was using Word Perfect on DOS machines long before Windows and Word. I was more into Word Star than Word Perfect and I am pretty sure WS could do this but it might have been WP. I wonder if I have grey cells lurking that are telling me I have done this before - but from that far back. I am sure I have done it somehow, which is why I am getting so bogged down with it, else I would have given up on it ages ago. -- Nick |
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That IS good news--something users have been asking for for many versions.
-- 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. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi The version of WordPerfect I used in about 1985 had what it called "Flush Right". That is, text was aligned at the right margin, no matter where the margin was. No version of Word has ever had that capability. It has, however, been added in Word 2007. Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "D7666" wrote in message ups.com... 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. -- Nick |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill Shauna Kelly Thanks for your help Suzanne and Shauna. Quite apart from the technical know how, it confirmed I was not going mad or suffering from memory loss. And I know now too where I have done this before. In addition to Word 97, I have OpenOffice 2 here. I just tried this again very quickly in OO Writer - and it seems to work - the right justified text appears to move with changes in global page set up. It was a quick test, might not be 100% in all cases, but it satisifed my sanity by doing what I was trying in the Word doc. I stopped using OO Writer for other reasons. I had gone from Word 97 to OO 2 largely because it was free but also because it was getting rave reviews. But OO has no ability to ''find and replace'' paragraph marks. Where Word uses the term ^p in ''find and replace'' drop down menus for this fiunction, there is no direct easy possibilty in Writer. That is a real disadvantage with many of the files I handle. Anyway OO is a digression. Thanks again for the Word help. -- Nick |
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