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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop.
Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
Not much, but one possibility is to use a leader with it to get an
underscore (blank) at the end of a line that runs from the last bit of text to the right margin. The "concept" is simply to use the correct type of tab setting for the required purpose:-) Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 12/16/07 4:01 PM, in article , "sheana" wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana
wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. Howdy, Assuming that I am interpreting your question correctly... Such a tab setting could be used to create something that would look like this: Cat Cat Dog Dog Horse Horse Elephant Elephant ^ ^ (right margin) Here the first tab is right aligned, and the second is left aligned. It might make more sense if you think of the tabs as creating columns of text. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm. Note that in Word
tab stops can be set beyond the right margin (or paragraph indent); this is handy when you want the text to wrap to the left of where the tab stop is, for example in a TOC, where you want the entries to stop well short of the page numbers. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "sheana" wrote in message ... I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
Kenneth (or whoever can answer this), did you get the "cat, dog, horse"
effect simply by using left and right tabs, or did you use spaces also? I tried to duplicate what you did and each word didn't move over by one space as did yours. "Kenneth" wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. Howdy, Assuming that I am interpreting your question correctly... Such a tab setting could be used to create something that would look like this: Cat Cat Dog Dog Horse Horse Elephant Elephant ^ ^ (right margin) Here the first tab is right aligned, and the second is left aligned. It might make more sense if you think of the tabs as creating columns of text. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
Also, can walk me through 2 lines keytroke by keystroke to understand how to
do this? Thanks in advance. "Kenneth" wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. Howdy, Assuming that I am interpreting your question correctly... Such a tab setting could be used to create something that would look like this: Cat Cat Dog Dog Horse Horse Elephant Elephant ^ ^ (right margin) Here the first tab is right aligned, and the second is left aligned. It might make more sense if you think of the tabs as creating columns of text. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:25:01 -0800, sheana
wrote: "Kenneth" wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. Howdy, Assuming that I am interpreting your question correctly... Such a tab setting could be used to create something that would look like this: Cat Cat Dog Dog Horse Horse Elephant Elephant ^ ^ (right margin) Here the first tab is right aligned, and the second is left aligned. It might make more sense if you think of the tabs as creating columns of text. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." Kenneth (or whoever can answer this), did you get the "cat, dog, horse" effect simply by using left and right tabs, or did you use spaces also? I tried to duplicate what you did and each word didn't move over by one space as did yours. Hi Sheana, What you saw in your newsreader was not done with Word. I was merely trying to show you what Word would display if you were to set up such tabs in Word. That said, in Word: Click Format | Tabs and enter a tab at 1" (with the Left version chosen with the radio buttons below. Then, add another tab at 3" (with the Right version chosen with the radio buttons below.) Click OK to get out of the tab setting dialog, (and set the tabs you have just created. Then, with a blank doc visible: Touch the tab key. (The cursor should jump to the right 1".) Type XXXXXXX. Touch the tab key again (and the cursor should jump 3" to the right. Type OOOOOOOOOO. Touch Enter (to get to the next line.) Touch the Tab key. Type XXX. Touch the Tab Key. Type OOO. At that point, your screen should look like this: XXXXXXX OOOOOOOOOO XXX OOO The first Tab (at 1") aligns the text to the left, and the second tab (at 3") aligns the text to the right. If you keep typing in the fashion I described, you will soon have two columns aligned in that way. Using that approach, you can align columns to the left, the right, or on decimals etc. That last type of tab would produce a column looking like this: 12345.678 1.23 .123 543.21 I hope that this is of help to you, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
I suspect Kenneth's example isn't what he originally had prior to posting.
It's difficult to demonstrate alignment in a newsgroup post -- something is bound to become misaligned and it doesn't look lined up on my end. Tabs are used for alignment. A manual tab removes the need to press the Tab key a zillion times and add a bunch of spaces as an effort to align data. They are used for many reasons since a paragraph in Word can only use one paragraph alignment. If you need mixed alignment, such as in a header or footer, and data needs to be aligned to the left and right then tabs are used to create the alignment. For example, in a book the title of a chapter might be left aligned and the page number right aligned. If you use View/Header and Footer in Word you'll see manual tab stops created for this purpose: to align content left, center, and right. Other reasons manual tabs are used is for aligning data in columns such as Name, Address, City, State. (Although note if using Word then a borderless Word table is preferred over created a tabbed table.) Perhaps this article will help as well (Scroll down to the section titled "Tab Stops" near the bottom): http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...226861033.aspx Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "sheana" wrote in message ... Kenneth (or whoever can answer this), did you get the "cat, dog, horse" effect simply by using left and right tabs, or did you use spaces also? I tried to duplicate what you did and each word didn't move over by one space as did yours. "Kenneth" wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana wrote: I'm working with the tab settings, such as left, right, decimal and bar stop. Along the horizontal ruler you can put a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right and vice versa. Can someone please tell me what a left-aligned tab stop all the way to the right of the ruler accomplishes? Thanks in advance. Howdy, Assuming that I am interpreting your question correctly... Such a tab setting could be used to create something that would look like this: Cat Cat Dog Dog Horse Horse Elephant Elephant ^ ^ (right margin) Here the first tab is right aligned, and the second is left aligned. It might make more sense if you think of the tabs as creating columns of text. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
I'm sure you are able to see what happened to the alignment after you've
posted. :-) To add an additional note, they should numbers align at the decimal point. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "Kenneth" wrote in message news That last type of tab would produce a column looking like this: 12345.678 1.23 .123 543.21 |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:51:01 -0600, "Beth Melton"
wrote: I'm sure you are able to see what happened to the alignment after you've posted. :-) To add an additional note, they should numbers align at the decimal point. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton "Kenneth" wrote in message news That last type of tab would produce a column looking like this: 12345.678 1.23 .123 543.21 Hi Beth, When I view the posted message, the alignment is perfect. Despite that, I suppose that I should have mentioned the possibility that with proportional fonts, the alignment would not be right. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
Yeah, alignment is always difficult to show due to different fonts and
newsreaders. For example you are using Agent and "sheana" is using the web interface on microsoft.com to access the newsgroups. Here's what it looks like the http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...606&sloc=en-us I'm using OE and the alignment is out of whack on my end as well. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Kenneth" wrote in message ... When I view the posted message, the alignment is perfect. Despite that, I suppose that I should have mentioned the possibility that with proportional fonts, the alignment would not be right. |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:10:09 -0600, "Beth Melton"
wrote: Yeah, alignment is always difficult to show due to different fonts and newsreaders. For example you are using Agent and "sheana" is using the web interface on microsoft.com to access the newsgroups. Here's what it looks like the http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...606&sloc=en-us I'm using OE and the alignment is out of whack on my end as well. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Hi Beth, Oh, what a mess... I may have contributed to the confusion. In any case, I hope that Sheana has it sorted out. All the best, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS." |
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Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.
"Kenneth" wrote in message
... On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:10:09 -0600, "Beth Melton" wrote: Yeah, alignment is always difficult to show due to different fonts and newsreaders. For example you are using Agent and "sheana" is using the web interface on microsoft.com to access the newsgroups. Here's what it looks like the http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...606&sloc=en-us Oh, what a mess... I suspect the reason why I noted the numbers should align to the decimal point makes more sense, now. lol I may have contributed to the confusion. In any case, I hope that Sheana has it sorted out. Oh, I doubt you added any confusion -- you provided great step-by-step instructions. :-) ~Beth Melton |
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