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Checklist style "........." formatting
Hi all,
Quick question about creating a checklist style document. I'm trying to acheive the following look in MS Word, without doing a lot of work. Something along the lines of an aviation style checklist document in the following format, for example: Valve 1.................OPEN Switch 24...............CLOSED Item ABEEDDCC.....CHECK SECURE This is the same sort of style that a Table of Contents list generates for you. So what I want is for the right "column" (the open/closed words) to be aligned left, and then have the left column words to be followed by the .......... over to the right column. Of course, the words in the left column will be of varying length. You can see an example of what I'm talking about he http://www.pilotlist.org/manuels/ces...2/check172.jpg . So I need some way to automate the ..... and get all the letters to line up in the right column too. I don't have much experience with macros (if that's what's needed) but I can give it a shot (I've got some minor experience with programming, although I'm not sure if macros are the same thing!) I could type the Word 1............Word 2 by hand, but that would be redundant and take a long time. Any suggestions on how to do this? I appreciate all and any help I get. -Duncan |
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Checklist style "........." formatting
Hi Duncan
You need to format the relevant paragraphs with a right-aligned tab positioned at the right margin with a .... tab leader. Or, create a style with the appropriate tab and apply the style to the relevant paragraphs. Then just type (eg) "Valve 1[TAB]OPEN". Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Duncan" wrote in message ... Hi all, Quick question about creating a checklist style document. I'm trying to acheive the following look in MS Word, without doing a lot of work. Something along the lines of an aviation style checklist document in the following format, for example: Valve 1.................OPEN Switch 24...............CLOSED Item ABEEDDCC.....CHECK SECURE This is the same sort of style that a Table of Contents list generates for you. So what I want is for the right "column" (the open/closed words) to be aligned left, and then have the left column words to be followed by the ......... over to the right column. Of course, the words in the left column will be of varying length. You can see an example of what I'm talking about he http://www.pilotlist.org/manuels/ces...2/check172.jpg . So I need some way to automate the ..... and get all the letters to line up in the right column too. I don't have much experience with macros (if that's what's needed) but I can give it a shot (I've got some minor experience with programming, although I'm not sure if macros are the same thing!) I could type the Word 1............Word 2 by hand, but that would be redundant and take a long time. Any suggestions on how to do this? I appreciate all and any help I get. -Duncan |
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Checklist style "........." formatting
Aha! Thanks for the help. I had used tabs before, but I guess I overlooked
the tab "leaders". Thanks you kindly for the help again. -Duncan "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Duncan You need to format the relevant paragraphs with a right-aligned tab positioned at the right margin with a .... tab leader. Or, create a style with the appropriate tab and apply the style to the relevant paragraphs. Then just type (eg) "Valve 1[TAB]OPEN". Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Duncan" wrote in message ... Hi all, Quick question about creating a checklist style document. I'm trying to acheive the following look in MS Word, without doing a lot of work. Something along the lines of an aviation style checklist document in the following format, for example: Valve 1.................OPEN Switch 24...............CLOSED Item ABEEDDCC.....CHECK SECURE This is the same sort of style that a Table of Contents list generates for you. So what I want is for the right "column" (the open/closed words) to be aligned left, and then have the left column words to be followed by the ......... over to the right column. Of course, the words in the left column will be of varying length. You can see an example of what I'm talking about he http://www.pilotlist.org/manuels/ces...2/check172.jpg . So I need some way to automate the ..... and get all the letters to line up in the right column too. I don't have much experience with macros (if that's what's needed) but I can give it a shot (I've got some minor experience with programming, although I'm not sure if macros are the same thing!) I could type the Word 1............Word 2 by hand, but that would be redundant and take a long time. Any suggestions on how to do this? I appreciate all and any help I get. -Duncan |
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