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30 Character Magic
I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters,
including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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How did you create the underline? Is it a tab leader (Format | Tabs)
or underline formatting (Format | Font)? Anyway, I think you'll find it a lot easier to use a table cell with a bottom border to create the underline. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Divelucaya" wrote in message ... I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using
Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this would be the same as a tab leader. Unfortunately, I have this and others like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I don't like getting into nested tables. The document is already quite busy at it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole document off. "Stefan Blom" wrote: How did you create the underline? Is it a tab leader (Format | Tabs) or underline formatting (Format | Font)? Anyway, I think you'll find it a lot easier to use a table cell with a bottom border to create the underline. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Divelucaya" wrote in message ... I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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"Divelucaya" wrote in message
... The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this would be the same as a tab leader. No, it's not the same as a tab leader. A tab leader is added via Format | Tabs, and it applies only to the tab character itself (not to the text at the tab stop). Unfortunately, I have this and others like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I don't like getting into nested tables. Well, I did some testing and I can confirm what you are seeing. However, it doesn't seem to be related to the number of characters but rather to the position of the tab stop: the problem seems to occur when the typed text reaches a distance corresponding to "two tab stops" from the left margin (for example, if the tab stop is at 1" from the left margin, the thick underline will appear after I've typed so much text that line length exceeds 2"). I do not know what causes this problem. The only "solution" I know of is to use a different font or font size instead of bold formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP The document is already quite busy at it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole document off. "Stefan Blom" wrote: How did you create the underline? Is it a tab leader (Format | Tabs) or underline formatting (Format | Font)? Anyway, I think you'll find it a lot easier to use a table cell with a bottom border to create the underline. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Divelucaya" wrote in message ... I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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Another thing to consider: Although visible on screen, the thick
underline may may not be noted in a printout of the document. ()f course, this may also depend on the font and size used.) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... "Divelucaya" wrote in message ... The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this would be the same as a tab leader. No, it's not the same as a tab leader. A tab leader is added via Format | Tabs, and it applies only to the tab character itself (not to the text at the tab stop). Unfortunately, I have this and others like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I don't like getting into nested tables. Well, I did some testing and I can confirm what you are seeing. However, it doesn't seem to be related to the number of characters but rather to the position of the tab stop: the problem seems to occur when the typed text reaches a distance corresponding to "two tab stops" from the left margin (for example, if the tab stop is at 1" from the left margin, the thick underline will appear after I've typed so much text that line length exceeds 2"). I do not know what causes this problem. The only "solution" I know of is to use a different font or font size instead of bold formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP The document is already quite busy at it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole document off. "Stefan Blom" wrote: How did you create the underline? Is it a tab leader (Format | Tabs) or underline formatting (Format | Font)? Anyway, I think you'll find it a lot easier to use a table cell with a bottom border to create the underline. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Borders.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Divelucaya" wrote in message ... I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters, including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character, the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also, looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over there, stop laughing. |
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