WD2000: How to Simulate WordPerfect's Flush Right
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SUMMARY
This article describes how to create the effect called "flush right" in
WordPerfect. In WordPerfect, the Flush Right command lines up some text
in one line with the left margin and the rest of the text with the
right margin. The following is an example of this type of formatting:
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text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text
In Word, you can use a right-aligned tab or a two-column table to
accomplish this effect. A two-column table is the fastest way to align
text in this fashion.
You can set the right-aligned tab manually, or you can create a macro
to set the tab automatically. If you use this type of formatting only
occasionally, or if you are interested in learning more about setting
tabs, read the "Method 2: Set the Right-Aligned Tab Manually" section
of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
To simulate the effect of the Flush Right command, use one of the
following methods.
Method 1: Create a Two-Column Table
- Place the insertion point on the blank line where you want the text to
appear.
- On the Table menu, click Insert and then click Table. In the Number of Columns box, type "2" (without the quotation marks). In the Number of Rows box, type "1" (without the quotation marks). Click OK.
The table appears in the document. If you do not see the table, click
Show Gridlines on the Table menu.
- In the first column, type the text that you want to appear along the
left margin.
- Click the right column. On the Format menu, click Paragraph. On the
Indents and Spacing tab, select Right on the Alignment drop-down list.
- Type the text you want to appear along the right edge of the page.
Method 2: Set a Right-Aligned Tab Manually
- Click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar so that paragraph
marks and spaces are visible.
This makes it easier to see the tab mark when you insert it in step 4.
- Click the View menu and make sure that Ruler is selected.
- Type the text you want to appear along the left margin.
- Press the TAB key.
A small arrow (tab indicator) appears next to the text.
- Move the pointer to the left edge of the ruler. A small black "L"
symbol is in a small box. Click the box. Each time you click it, a different symbol appears. Each symbol represents a different type of tab. Click the box until a small backward "L" appears.
- Move the pointer to the place on the ruler where you want the right
edge of the text to appear. (Hint: It may be easiest to see this if you do
not click all the way at the right edge of the ruler. Start a little way
in from the right edge. You can easily drag the tab setting later.)
Click the mouse button.
A small backward "L" appears on the ruler.
- Type the text that you want to appear at the right edge.
The text is now aligned along the left and right margins.
When you press ENTER to start a new paragraph, the new paragraph will have
the same tab setting.
NOTE: If you do not see the same tab setting when you press ENTER, you
have
the WordPerfect options turned on. To turn off these options, click Options
on the Tools menu, select the General tab, and clear the Help for
WordPerfect Users and the Navigation Keys for WordPerfect
Users check boxes.
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Additional query words:
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Keywords : wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto
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