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From: Puzzled in Portland Puzzled in on 2 Apr 2010 12:56 I want to advance text to a specific position within the line that is independent of the number of characters that precedes it. Tab will not work as it measures from the preceding character. WordPerfect has a command: "Typesetting" "Advance" that I use for this. Is there a comparable command in MS Word?
From: Jay Freedman on 2 Apr 2010 13:51 Word does have an Advance field, mostly for compatibility with documents imported from WordPerfect. If you use the \x switch, it will position the next character at the specified location. According to the help topic on the Advance field, the \x switch "moves the text that follows the field the specified distance from the left edge of the column, frame, or text box. For example, { ADVANCE \x 4 } starts text 4 points from the left edge." However, you're incorrect about a tab (more correctly, a tab stop). Tab stops are *always* positioned absolutely with respect to the left margin. You may be confused by the "default" tab stops, which (if you don't change the setting in the Tabs dialog) occur every 0.5". If you set a non-default tab stop, and if the character before a tab character is to the left of that tab stop, then the character after it will be placed at the tab stop. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm for more. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Puzzled in Portland wrote: > I want to advance text to a specific position within the line that is > independent of the number of characters that precedes it. Tab will > not work as it measures from the preceding character. WordPerfect > has a command: "Typesetting" "Advance" that I use for this. Is there > a comparable command in MS Word?
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