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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2005Problem with Indentations
Hi Guys. Is there a way to find out the current indentation of any paragraphs such that I get the indentation as the answer. Please tell me > Hi Guys. > Is there a way to find out the current indentation of any paragraphs > such that I get the indentation as the answer. > Please tell me MsgBox PointsToInches(Selection.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent)  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Investigate the values of the LeftIndent, RightIndent and FirstLineIndent properties. For example, the following macro would print to the Immediate Window of the Visual Basic Editor the values (in points) of left, right, and first line indents for the first paragraph contained in the selection: Sub PrintIndents() With Selection.Paragraphs(1) Debug.Print .LeftIndent Debug.Print .RightIndent Debug.Print .FirstLineIndent End With End Sub SignatureStefan Blom > Hi Guys. > Is there a way to find out the current indentation of any paragraphs > such that I get the indentation as the answer. > Please tell me Hi Guys Hey what is the relation between, left indent, tabhanging indent and firstline indent. I have a document with some random haphazard indentation. If I give a leftindent of 0.79 to the list paragraphs for example, it actually does not give a left indent of 0.79. It gives me some other indent. So What is the relation between the three attributes and How do I get it to do my job. > Hi Guys > Hey what is the relation between, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > So What is the relation between the three attributes and How do I get > it to do my job. This text has a left indent. This text has a left indent. This text has a left indent. This text has a left indent. This text has a left indent. This text has a left indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a hanging indent. This text has a first line indent. This text has a first line indent. This text has a first line indent. This text has a first line indent. This text has a first line indent. The LeftIndent property gives you the indentation of the paragraph as a whole (in points). The FirstLineIndent property defines the modification to the indentation of the first line of the paragraph. If you set a hanging indent using the Format Paragraph dialog, then the value of FirstLineIndent is negative. For a first line indent, the value is positive. If you have a 1/2" indent of various kinds, the values of the properties are as follows Indent type LeftIndent property FirstLineIndent property 1/2" left 36 0 1/2" first line 0 36 1/2" hanging 36 -36 SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Hi Jonathan Does this logic apply to bulleted, numbered and outline numbered paragraphs too. Cause I am having a problem only with those kind of paragraphs and not with body text. > Hi Jonathan > Does this logic apply to bulleted, numbered and outline numbered > paragraphs too. > Cause I am having a problem only with those kind of paragraphs and not > with body text. Ah, you might have mentioned that a little earlier! With bullets and numbering it is different. In fact if you are manually applying bullets and numbering from the Format, Bullets and Numbering dialog, than you are in for all kinds of problems if you are copying & pasting and trying to create a lengthy document. We call this problem "spaghetti numbering", and it is a well-known design fault in Word. The issue is too complex to describe in a short newsgroup reply, so instead, I recommend that you read the following two articles. Word's numbering explained http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/WordsNumberingExplained.htm How to restart style-based numbering http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ListRestartMethods.htm Once you have read through those, you will hopefully realise that for a document of any length or complexity that uses numbering, you *must* define a template, it *must* have an appropriate set of styles for it, and numbering *must only ever* be inserted by applying the appropriate styles. Any other approach is asking fro trouble. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Yes, the docs in that place are good. Hey one more query john. I am not applying the headings and numbering manually. I already have a document with random headers, numbered lists etc, etc. Then I have to write a macro that identifies everything and gives different indentations for the headings, numbered lists and bulleted lists. Hows that man. Yes, the docs in that place are good. Hey one more query john. I am not applying the headings and numbering manually. I already have a document with random headers, numbered lists etc, etc. Then I have to write a macro that identifies everything and gives different indentations for the headings, numbered lists and bulleted lists. Hows that man. |
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