It's really difficult to diagnose what's going wrong when
something doesn't work the way it should. Sometimes these things
turn out to be bugs and not anything you're doing wrong.
If you want to send me the file (offlist) I'll take a quick look
and see if I can spot anything immediately.
Cheers, Jean
Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jean,
Yes, I have tried to set tabs in paragraph style, but
I'm not sure if I did it right, but whatever I did, the
moment I highlighted the raw text all tabs would
disappear from the ruler. And yes, I also turned
on non-printing characters.
I found, if I removed all tabs manually from a
paragraph, THEN I could highlight that paragraph
without tab markers on the ruler disappearing.
The job then is: how to remove all embedded
tab markers without removing them one by one.
The Find/Replace help file says \t is the code to
enter for search and replace. I tried this on a
section of this file, where I had placed some
tabs manually. Guess it didn't like my tabs as
the message was 'Search object not found'
Over to you.
Max.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Hollis Weber"
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Subject: Re: [users] 2 hours to set tabs :-((
Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi again,
I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
names and relevant page numbers. This was
created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
foolishly I volunteered to tidy things up.
My approach was to use just 3 tabs, the last a
right tab for the numbers and shift things into place by removing
multiple spaces a.s.o.
But I couldn't set the tabs! If I highlight the
text I can't set tabs, if I select one single line
at a time I can set tabs, but as soon as I go to the next line I have
to set tabs over and
over again.
So how can I set fixed tabs for existing text?
A solution really would restore my faith
in O O.
Gee, I hate to mention styles again, but...
Have you tried setting the tabs in the paragraph style? Probably the
whole list is in one style, so a change in the style should affect all
of the lines. If changing the style doesn't do the job on all of the
lines straightaway, highlight the whole document and choose Format >
Default Formatting to get rid of any overrides that may be interfering.
Oh, and if you haven't already turned on the display of tabs,
paragraph markers, and other non-printing characters, I recommend you
do so. I find that it's much easier to diagnose what's going on if I
can see those things.
Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
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