Can't grasp concept of left and right alignment.

sheana · Guest

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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CyberTaz · Guest

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

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Kenneth · Guest

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:00 -0800, sheana
<sheana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Suzanne S. Barnhill · Guest

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

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sheana · Guest

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:

sheana · Guest

Also, can walk me through 2 lines keytroke by keystroke to understand how to
do this? Thanks in advance.

"Kenneth" wrote:

Kenneth · Guest

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:25:01 -0800, sheana
<sheana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Beth Melton · Guest

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/word/HA011226861033.aspx

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Beth Melton · Guest

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.

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Kenneth · Guest

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:51:01 -0600, "Beth Melton"
<bmelton@mvps.org> wrote:

Beth Melton · Guest

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 there:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement&mid=5283552d-9f30-41a3-8a04-b8e35f563606&sloc=en-us

I'm using OE and the alignment is out of whack on my end as well.

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Kenneth · Guest

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:10:09 -0600, "Beth Melton"
<bmelton@mvps.org> wrote: