WD97: Tabs Button Doesn't Work with Envelopes and Labels

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In the Envelopes And Labels dialog box (on the Tools menu, click Envelopes And Labels), when you click the Tabs button on the Indents and Spacing tab (right-click in the Address box on the Labels tab, and then click Paragraph on the shortcut menu), Word returns to the Labels tab and the Tabs dialog box is not displayed.

NOTE: The Tabs dialog box is displayed after you click Print, New Document, or Cancel in the Envelopes And Labels dialog box.

WORKAROUND

Click Cancel to close the Tabs dialog box.

NOTE: If you set a tab in the Tabs dialog box, the tab will be set at the insertion point of the active document.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem has been corrected in Word 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Word 97 for Windows, when you are using paragraph formatting in the Address box on the Labels tab, the Tabs button on the Indents and Spacing tab should be unavailable as in earlier versions of Microsoft Word for Windows.

Additional query words: 8.0

Keywords : kbdta winword word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug