Short Tabs

Question

all,

in some of my documents some tabs are .05 inches and others are .5 inches, is there any way to make sure all tabs in a document are of equal length?

Answer 1

You should set custom tab stops (you can use the horizontal ruler) in order to position text where you want it. See

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/SettingTabs.htm

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all,

in some of my documents some tabs are .05 inches and others are .5 inches, is there any way to make sure all tabs in a document are of equal length?

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Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

Answer 2

Is the text inserted by the merge of varying length? In that case, you probably have to adjust the tab stop position so that it fits with all merged documents.

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Stefan,

this was very useful and i changed the formatting but i am still running into

the issue.

the document is a mail merge, so i set tabs stops in the paragraph the issue

is happening. this paragraph is {mergefield}- 2 hard coded tabs-{mergefield}.

these paragraphs get 1 of 5 header styles aplied to it, i set up tab stops in

each of the styles but still i get some the first tab as short, normal, and

oddly enough sometimes the tab is gone. it happens only in some of the header

styles.

any ideas or changes i should make?

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Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

Answer 3

Stefan,

this was very useful and i changed the formatting but i am still running into the issue.

the document is a mail merge, so i set tabs stops in the paragraph the issue is happening.  this paragraph is {mergefield}- 2 hard coded tabs-{mergefield}.   these paragraphs get 1 of 5 header styles aplied to it, i set up tab stops in each of the styles but still i get some the first tab as short, normal, and oddly enough sometimes the tab is gone.  it happens only in some of the header styles.

any ideas or changes i should make?