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best way to do tabs
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What is the best way to put tabs in a document. I'm struggling with this feature? Any help appreciated, Olivera |
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best way to do tabs
Olivera wrote:
Hi, What is the best way to put tabs in a document. I'm struggling with this feature? Hi Olivera, The best way: Don't ;-) Tabs are rarely needed, and most times a maintenance nightmare. Use tables if that's what you currently use tabs for. Use indents (Format Paragraph) for indents, hanging indents and first line indents. There really isn't much left if you do that. "Valid" uses might be if you need tab leaders (say, dots up to the page number in a TOC), or sophisticated stuff like centered and right-aligned tabs, or decimal tabs to line up numbers. For some of that, there really aren't any good alternatives. If you *need* to use tabs (for example because of backward compatibility with some other program that doesn't do tables or indents), you could define the tabs in the style. Many times though, it isn't worth the trouble because the tabs aren't always the same. If you do use tabs, a good rule is *not* to use the default tabs. Set them the way you need them. The ruler above the document ("View Ruler") is a good tool to set them. If you do a table with tabs, make sure you always need only one tab to move to the next "column". http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...ettingTabs.htm has more info -- I hope it won't contradict me, because I haven't read it ;-) Regards, Klaus |
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I think Olivera was asking not about how to put tabs in documents but how to
put tab stops. The article you cited (http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...ettingTabs.htm) will explain this and will confirm your advice to set specific tabs rather than use the built-in default ones. The most important thing, though, is, insofar as possible, to define styles that have tab stops placed as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... Olivera wrote: Hi, What is the best way to put tabs in a document. I'm struggling with this feature? Hi Olivera, The best way: Don't ;-) Tabs are rarely needed, and most times a maintenance nightmare. Use tables if that's what you currently use tabs for. Use indents (Format Paragraph) for indents, hanging indents and first line indents. There really isn't much left if you do that. "Valid" uses might be if you need tab leaders (say, dots up to the page number in a TOC), or sophisticated stuff like centered and right-aligned tabs, or decimal tabs to line up numbers. For some of that, there really aren't any good alternatives. If you *need* to use tabs (for example because of backward compatibility with some other program that doesn't do tables or indents), you could define the tabs in the style. Many times though, it isn't worth the trouble because the tabs aren't always the same. If you do use tabs, a good rule is *not* to use the default tabs. Set them the way you need them. The ruler above the document ("View Ruler") is a good tool to set them. If you do a table with tabs, make sure you always need only one tab to move to the next "column". http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...ettingTabs.htm has more info -- I hope it won't contradict me, because I haven't read it ;-) Regards, Klaus |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:45:10 +0200, "Klaus Linke"
wrote: Olivera wrote: Hi, What is the best way to put tabs in a document. I'm struggling with this feature? Hi Olivera, The best way: Don't ;-) There is one case where using tab stops might be better than using tables. If you have 100000 rows, tables may fail, but tabbed paragraphs will work fine. Other than that, most people will find tables easier to deal with. Bob S |
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Well, it depends what you're using the tab stops for. If you're creating a
table, I would agree that a table is best, but there are many uses for tab stops in material that is not tabular. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bob S" wrote in message ... On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:45:10 +0200, "Klaus Linke" wrote: Olivera wrote: Hi, What is the best way to put tabs in a document. I'm struggling with this feature? Hi Olivera, The best way: Don't ;-) There is one case where using tab stops might be better than using tables. If you have 100000 rows, tables may fail, but tabbed paragraphs will work fine. Other than that, most people will find tables easier to deal with. Bob S |
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