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Inconsistent behavior with with tab at end of line

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Scott Meyers - 16 May 2008 18:17 GMT
I'm using PPT 2002 (XP), and I often want to go to the end of a line and tab out
a couple of tab stops before adding more text.  (I'm displaying program source
code and tabbing to comment locations, so using a table is not appropriate.)
The lines where I want to do this are often part of a paragraph containing
forced line breaks (via shift-enter), and I find that if I go to the end of a
line that ends with a forced line break and I hit tab, the tab is inserted at
the beginning of the next line, not at the end of the line the cursor is on.  I
suspect what is happening is that when I put my cursor at the end of the line,
it's located after the invisible "forced line break" character, so the tab I
want to insert is inserted after the forced line break.

Does anybody know of a way for me to set things up so that putting my cursor at
the end of a line with a forced line break will let me hit tab and actually
insert a tab at the end of that line?  Failing that, how about a way to make the
invisible forced line breaks visible so that I at least have a visual cue that
hitting tab isn't going to do what I want?

Thanks,

Scott
T Lavedas - 16 May 2008 19:26 GMT
> I'm using PPT 2002 (XP), and I often want to go to the end of a line and tab out
> a couple of tab stops before adding more text.  (I'm displaying program source
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> Scott

What I tend to do in such situations is to press the Left-arrow key
once before I start to type.  If there is a hard-return the cursor
moves to the end of the last (visible) character on the line.  If
there isn't, it backs up into the last word and I press Right-arrow to
get to the end of the line.

I also find a quick Home-End correctl positions the cursor after the
last character on the line and before the hard-return character.

I just checked and unfortunately, unlike in Word, PowerPoint does not
support the option of making such characters visible.

Tom Lavedas
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Scott Meyers - 16 May 2008 19:32 GMT
> What I tend to do in such situations is to press the Left-arrow key
> once before I start to type.  If there is a hard-return the cursor
> moves to the end of the last (visible) character on the line.  If
> there isn't, it backs up into the last word and I press Right-arrow to
> get to the end of the line.

Yes, I do this little cursor dance, too, but because it's ungodly stupid to have
to do it, sometimes I forget.

> I also find a quick Home-End correctl positions the cursor after the
> last character on the line and before the hard-return character.

This is a nice suggestion, thanks.  Going to Home nicely addresses the problem
that going to End goes to the next line if you're already at the end of the
current line.  Of course, if you're on an empty line, going to Home takes you to
the previous line, so it's still possible to shoot yourself in the foot.

Really, I think the MS people were on drugs (medication, I'm sure) when they
designed the behavior of the cursor movement keys.

Scott
 
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