Use the Right Codes to Help Your Word Processing Documents
I rarely get involved in coding documents anymore, but there are two very helpful codes that most people don’t know about or use.
Hard advances – When you have a document with blanks to fill in for name and the name is too many characters, it can go past a tab stop and push the words out of alignment. Select Menu [Format] [Typesetting] [Advance…] You can choose a horizontal advance (where the words will be on the page from left to right) or a vertical advance (where the words are from the last word or the top of the page). You can also choose a specific advance from the insertion point or from the edge of the page. If you want the words to appear in the same place all of the time, choose the advance from the left edge of the page. By using a hard advance instead of a tab, you won’t have to keep taking out the extra tabs in your documents.
Tab Settings – Most people know how to change their tab settings, but don’t take full advantage of the different kinds of tabs. You can use decimal tabs to align rows of numbers and right tabs for table of contents. You can also use any of the tabs with dot leaders, which are exactly what they sound like. When you’re setting up a table of numbers, a table of contents or index… you can have WordPerfect automatically put in the line of dots (eg …….) with dot leader tabs.
I’m sure Word has the same codes, but perhaps with different naming conventions I just don’t use Word.
