i am fairly new to word and i hope this is the right forum. i cut a block
of text from one document and insert the block at a tab stop in in another
document. the cut block will be 10 characters wide and 15 lines longs.
when i try to insert it at the tab stop the block inserts itself as new
lines, rather than inserting itself at the tab stop. this is a fairly easy
thing to do in most text editors and i know word can do this and i can get
it to insert properly intermitently. i use the alt key and the mouse to
select a block of text in the one document.
tia,
chuck
Hi Chuck,
> i am fairly new to word and i hope this is the right forum.
.newusers would have been more appropriate AFAICT (at least I can't see
what it has to do with long documents :-)), but welcome nevertheless.
> i cut a block of text from one document and insert the block at a tab
> stop in in another document. the cut block will be 10 characters
> wide and 15 lines longs. when i try to insert it at the tab stop the
> block inserts itself as new lines, rather than inserting itself at
> the tab stop.
How do you "insert it at the tab stop" ...? Do you have a paragraph
consisting of nothing but a <tab> character? Maybe Word does some
AutoFormat for you (you can check this with peeking at the Undo-Command
after you insert your text).
> this is a fairly easy thing to do in most text editors and i know
> word can do this and i can get it to insert properly intermitently.
> i use the alt key and the mouse to select a block of text in the one
> document.
Ah, but then again, Word is a word processor, not a text editor! Almost
everything is gouverned by styles in Word. If you want text indented (at
the first line only, or at all lines in a given paragraph), your best
bet is to setup a style which has these paragraph settings and apply it
to your text.
Greetinx
.bob
..Word-MVP

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