[Richard]

Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[WordBanter AI]

Yes, you can insert large brackets in Word 2007 without using the equation function. Here's how:

1. Click on the "Insert" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
2. Click on the "Symbol" button in the "Symbols" group.
3. Click on "More Symbols" at the bottom of the drop-down menu.
4. In the "Symbol" tab, select "Mathematical Operators" from the "Subset" drop-down menu.
5. Scroll down until you find the brackets you want to use. There are several options, including left and right brackets, curly brackets, and square brackets.
6. Click on the bracket you want to use and then click on the "Insert" button.
7. The bracket will be inserted into your document at the location of your cursor.

To control formatting within the brackets, you can simply type your text inside the brackets and then use the formatting options in the "Home" tab of the ribbon to adjust the font, size, alignment, and other settings as needed. You can also adjust the size of the brackets themselves by selecting them and then using the font size drop-down menu in the "Home" tab.

If you need to insert multiple lines of text within the brackets, you can use a line break (Shift + Enter) to create a new line. You can also adjust the spacing between lines by selecting the text and then using the line spacing options in the "Paragraph" group of the "Home" tab.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Please see reply to your duplicate question in word.drawing.graphics.

--
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Richard" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able
to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Please see reply to your duplicate question in word.drawing.graphics.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Richard" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able
to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Jay Freedman]

To do what you want in the equation editor, first insert the bracket; within
the placeholder, insert a 1-column-by-2-row matrix; select the two matrix
placeholders, right-click, choose Column Alignment Left; and enter your
notation.

To do it without the equation editor, type the notation as plain text,
aligned as you like. Click Insert Shapes and choose the bracket (left or
right) from the Basic Shapes group. Drag a narrow bounding box to the proper
height, and size and position it as needed.

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all may benefit.

Richard wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word
2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be
able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will
always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it
aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Jay Freedman]

To do what you want in the equation editor, first insert the bracket; within
the placeholder, insert a 1-column-by-2-row matrix; select the two matrix
placeholders, right-click, choose Column Alignment Left; and enter your
notation.

To do it without the equation editor, type the notation as plain text,
aligned as you like. Click Insert Shapes and choose the bracket (left or
right) from the Basic Shapes group. Drag a narrow bounding box to the proper
height, and size and position it as needed.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Richard wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word
2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be
able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will
always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it
aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Jay Freedman]

Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
at
http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...respos=14&rt=2

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
wrote:

Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Jay Freedman]

Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
at
http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...respos=14&rt=2

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
wrote:

Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810....

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"



wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810....

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"



wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at my
chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every switch.
(The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere within the Help
system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add a parenthesis with
the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55*am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a word 2007
document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to be able to
control formatting within the brackets without being constrained by the
equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text will always
be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I want it aligned left.

[Jay Freedman]

The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached from the
Field Reference page at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...047231033.aspx. This is a copy
of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word 2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the Word
2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed; but the Word
2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word, although
Google can find it.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"



wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word
fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add
a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.-

[Jay Freedman]

The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached from the
Field Reference page at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...047231033.aspx. This is a copy
of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word 2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the Word
2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed; but the Word
2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word, although
Google can find it.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"



wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word
fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add
a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.-

[Peter T. Daniels]

That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53*am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached from the
Field Reference page athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This is a copy
of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word 2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the Word
2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed; but the Word
2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word, although
Google can find it.



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word
fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add
a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.--

[Peter T. Daniels]

That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53*am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached from the
Field Reference page athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This is a copy
of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word 2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the Word
2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed; but the Word
2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word, although
Google can find it.



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is covered
under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if you
have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly complicated
formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published, they were simply
done with a typewriter and handwritten braces etc.) into Word
fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just add
a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.--

[Jay Freedman]

Just guessing... Not enough complaints?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53 am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached
from the
Field Reference page
athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This
is a copy of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word
2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is
severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the
Word 2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed;
but the Word 2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in
the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word,
although
Google can find it.



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is
covered under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if
you have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's
online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly
complicated formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published,
they were simply done with a typewriter and handwritten braces
etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just
add a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.--

[Jay Freedman]

Just guessing... Not enough complaints?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53 am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached
from the
Field Reference page
athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This
is a copy of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word
2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is
severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the
Word 2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed;
but the Word 2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in
the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word,
although
Google can find it.



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is
covered under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if
you have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's
online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly
complicated formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published,
they were simply done with a typewriter and handwritten braces
etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just
add a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.--

[Peter T. Daniels]

Made me laugh!

On Mar 30, 5:10*pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
Just guessing... Not enough complaints?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53 am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached
from the
Field Reference page
athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This
is a copy of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word
2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is
severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the
Word 2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed;
but the Word 2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in
the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word,
although
Google can find it.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is
covered under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if
you have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's
online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly
complicated formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published,
they were simply done with a typewriter and handwritten braces
etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just
add a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Made me laugh!

On Mar 30, 5:10*pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
Just guessing... Not enough complaints?

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
That does explain a lot ... but is there a reason they haven't fixed
it in four years?

On Mar 30, 10:53 am, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
The entire set of help topics about specific fields can be reached
from the
Field Reference page
athttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH061047231033.aspx. This
is a copy of the corresponding section of the offline help from Word
2003.

I know from conversations that the Office documentation team is
severely
understaffed. It's my understanding that they expected to re-use the
Word 2003 field topics for Word 2007 because nothing had changed;
but the Word 2007 help indexing mechanism was never told to look in
the Word 2003 online
help for fields. As a result the material is invisible to Word,
although
Google can find it.

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Kewl ... that, IIRC, is a tiny part of the Appendix to the Word 5.0
Manual. Is more of it to be found elsewhere?

For Richard, the left/right/center alignment in the braces is
covered under "Array."

On Mar 29, 8:49 pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about all the amazing things that
can be done with EQ fields.

Richard, try this (using Ctrl+F9 to create the pairs of field
brackets; the bracket that follows \b\lc\ is just a typed bracket):

{ EQ \b\lc\{({ EQ \a\al (This is line one,This is line two)}) }

If you can't find the topic on the EQ field in the Word help (if
you have Word 2007, it either isn't there or isn't indexed), it's
online
athttp://office.microsoft.com/assistance/hfws.aspx?AssetID=HP0518614810...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:13:06 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"

wrote:
Not to toot my own horn, or anything, but if you'll have a look at
my chapter "Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b" in the just-published
*Chomskyan (R)evolutions*, ed. Douglas Kibbee (Benjamins, 2010),
you'll find that I've transcribed some of the incredibly
complicated formulas from Chomsky's M.A. thesis (as published,
they were simply done with a typewriter and handwritten braces
etc.) into Word fields.

No one in the last fifty years of linguistics has used formulas as
complicated as those, but once you understand how the field codes
work, their construction is quite straightforward.

Word used to come with a "Manual" that contained an Appendix
explaining every field option and all the parameters of every
switch. (The material doesn't appear to be preserved anywhere
within the Help system.) To left-align inside a brace, you just
add a parenthesis with the appropriate label.

On Mar 29, 10:55 am, Richard
wrote:
Is there any way to get large (2 or more lines) brackets into a
word 2007 document WITHOUT using the equation function.

I need large brackets for linguistic notation and I also need to
be able to control formatting within the brackets without being
constrained by the equation function.

The main problem with the equation formatting is that the text
will always be aligned to the centre within the brackets and I
want it aligned left.

Thanks for any help.