Setting column tabs in View>Print Layout

[wilfranz]

Hello friends,

In setting tabs on the Ruler Bar for a page with columns, one must first SelectAll the entire page that will be affected. So far no problem (except that I find it a little distracting working with a black page and white letters). Working in View>Normal mode this is no problem. But in View>PrintLayout Mode (which is how I like to work, to see margins) when the entire page is selected, the Ruler bar for setting tabs disappears. So, it appears that tabs cannot be set in Printer Layout View.

Is this true, or is there another way to do?

Using Word 2000 (9.0.2720)

TIA,

Bill vV

 

[misscrf]

Just for your preferences, have you tried to go to normal view, which can allow what you want, and change the % of the page you are viewing?

This may make you happier.

misscrf

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things

 

[wilfranz]

Thanks for your reply, misscrf

Yes, I did try that. Regardless of its zoom resolution, the "Normal" view seems to never display the margins of the page. But I really would prefer that margins are visible when adjusting column tabs. And it seems that Print Layout Mode is the only way to do that. Are you, maybe, implying that what I want is not possible? If so, I should stop banging my head against the proverbial brick wall.

BillvV

 

[misscrf]

I wouldn't give up yet. My limitation is that I do not know what you are trying to do with setting tabs on the ruler bar "for a page with columns" how are you trying to set them. did you break the page into columns? Have you tried working with a table instead?

Just some q's to help us find some a's lol

misscrf

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things

 

[BlueHorizon]

Hi,
This may help: When you created your columns, go to Format/Tabs. Enter the tab stop position for the first tab in column 1 and hit Set. Highlight what's in the tab stop position window and enter the tab for your first tab in column 2. Repeat for column 3.
HTH,

Best,
Blue Horizon

http://www.bluehorizontraining.com

 

[BlueHorizon]

p.s. Hit Set after entering each tab stop.

Best,
Blue Horizon

http://www.bluehorizontraining.com

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi wilfranz,

I'm not going to offer any solution I'm afraid, but I do see your problem and I don't quite understand what Word is doing (dare I say it's a bug?).

I only find it (and then only sometimes) if I do a Select All (of the whole document) - if I then do something like Shift+LeftArrow (which reduces the selection by one character) the ruler returns. I don't have a problem working on a single page but I have only mocked up a sample quickly to test so there may be some criteria under which it happens consistently.

Enjoy,
Tony

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We want to help you; help us to do it by reading this: Before you ask a question.
Excel VBA Training and more Help at [url=http://www.vbaexpress.

 

[wilfranz]

Thanks very much, all

Tony...
Great! Your solution is 99% of what I need. (It surely is not very intutive though.) It restores the ruler bar, and allows sliding tabs to readjust. Its only disadvantage is that I can't return to the top of the document while adjusting the tabs (if I do, the Select All cancels). I think I'l search around to find some other keystroke which will get that ruler back.

msscrf...
What I'm doing is setting up an OLE module from a database application (FoxPro). The parent application produces a tab-delimited table with a number of rows with any number of columns separated by a tab. Then the table file of columns (AnyFile.TXT, now already tabbed for column spacing) is opened by Word, where I want the operator to be able to Clear all tabs, then reinsert his own tabs by clicking on the Ruler Bar, then to be able to simply slide the columns one way or the other to adjust them visually for appearance. (That's why it is necessary to work with the margins visible, i.e. in Print Layout mode.)

This is dirt simple in WordPerfect with which I'm most accustomed, but I can't get WordPerfect to obey FoxPro's OLE codes, so I am using Word which works well with the OLE.

BlueHorizon...
I tried your suggestion, but still cannot get to be able to adjust columns in PrintLayout mode by sliding tabs on the Ruler Bar.

Thanks again, folks,

Bill vV

 

[misscrf]

I'm glad some others are helping. Unfortunately, I don't think I understand any of this process. I do not understand why anyone would bring a text file, comma delimited or tab or any other, into Word. If I were doing that for some ungodly reason, I would probably import it, select all, and go to the menu for Table/convert/text to table. Word is pretty intuitive at the separators for columns and rows.

Anyway, good luck.

misscrf

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things

 

[Phaed]

kinda agree w/ misscrf.

pos alternative, bring in .txt, create table w/ VBA w/ col num = num of text ranges seperate by tabs; THEN
grab text (w/out tab) & insert in cell
ignore tab
insert next text in next cell
assume is linefeed in .txt - at linefeed make
new table row

REPEAT

user can then resize col width with mouse as desired