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Prasant - 28 Mar 2006 21:41 GMT

Hi there,

I'm working on Word2003.

I am creating a document in which I have some headings and descriptions
which will be coming after a colon in the same line. I placed the heading in
bold, a colon in 0.80 tab space and in 1.90 tab space I placed the
description. I'm sure there are no spaces between the colons. As they are
only single line descriptions, the customer needs that kind of alignment. Now
when I complete the page layout with tabs positions, I went for Preview. I'm
shocked to see that the colons are aligned in a zigzag manner instead of
aligning as a straight one below the other . I tried many options but could
not solve the problem.

Can anyone tell the option with which I can align the tabs in a straight
manner. Neither spacing nor tab doing the job. Is there any option I have to
disable or enable. Even tabs inside the table doesn't work. Please help as I
have many docs to do.

Thanks in Advance.
Prasant.

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Jezebel - 29 Mar 2006 00:38 GMT

When you select one of these colonic lines, does the ruler show the tabs
where you expect them to be, and exactly the same for all such lines?

> Hi there,
>
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> Thanks in Advance.
> Prasant.

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Prasant - 29 Mar 2006 14:46 GMT

Hi Jezebel

I can see the tabs in the ruler and also all in the same position. But still
the colons " : " are not aligned straight one below the other. I checked by
drawing a line also.
In the document it looks like below.
:
:
:
:
:

But in the final output, it looks like this

:

:
:

Help me please.

> When you select one of these colonic lines, does the ruler show the tabs
> where you expect them to be, and exactly the same for all such lines?
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> > Thanks in Advance.
> > Prasant.

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Jezebel - 30 Mar 2006 05:29 GMT

Display non-printing characters so you can see what's going on. Find the
spaces around your tabs and delete them. Check that your colons are all the
same font, size, and weight.

> Hi Jezebel
>
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>> > Thanks in Advance.
>> > Prasant.

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