Best way to put unmovable text into a label

[texansgal]

I am working on laels and want to put a table where some of the data will be
the same and some will be changed. This will be done in the labels for File
Folders.

I have entered tables inside the labels but I am trying to make some data
(this will change each time) closer to the data that does not move. I have
made the margins in the table to be 0 as to make them closer but it still
isn't close enough. I want it to be like it is all together and not in a
table with spaces.

I have the following:

Shipment #(stays the same each time)
then the number right beside the # sign
then I will have a space, then a -, then space
next will have a number
then space, -, space
then the date

Example: Shipment #27 - BNE05279 - 05/21/09

The following will change but the basic layout needs to be the same:

27, BNE05279, 05/21/09


Please let me know the BEST way to do this... I just want to be able to TAB
to the parts that have to be changed and skip all that does not get changed
(Shipment #, - , - )

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

texansgal was telling us:
texansgal nous racontait que :

I am working on laels and want to put a table where some of the data
will be the same and some will be changed. This will be done in the
labels for File Folders.

I have entered tables inside the labels but I am trying to make some
data (this will change each time) closer to the data that does not
move. I have made the margins in the table to be 0 as to make them
closer but it still isn't close enough. I want it to be like it is
all together and not in a table with spaces.

I have the following:

Shipment #(stays the same each time)
then the number right beside the # sign
then I will have a space, then a -, then space
next will have a number
then space, -, space
then the date

Example: Shipment #27 - BNE05279 - 05/21/09

The following will change but the basic layout needs to be the same:

27, BNE05279, 05/21/09


Please let me know the BEST way to do this... I just want to be able
to TAB to the parts that have to be changed and skip all that does
not get changed (Shipment #, - , - )

Try this:

A six-column table.
All lefty/right cell margins set to 0, top/bottom to whatever value you want
to space each row, if you have more than one row, that is.
Select the whole table and set the width of all columns to 0.18 inches.
You may need to make that value higher or lower, depending on the font you
use, I tried it with Arial 12 regular.
On the table tab, in Options, where you set the cell margins, make sure you
check "Automatically resize to fit contents"
Select the third column and center its content. again with the fifth column.
Remove all borders..
In the first cell, type "Shipment" followed by a non-breaking space (SHIT +
CTRL + Space bar) followed by "#". Type a hyphen "-" in the third and fifth
cells. (The minimal size of the column, you set at the beginning will be
determined by the minimum size you can use here.)
Now when tabbing through the cells, when you type values in columns 2, 4 and
6, the width of the column will adjust to the largest value.

Of course, if one entry has a very short values, the spacing will be off for
that entry since the largest value of the column will determine the width of
the column. However, if I understood what you are doing correctly, this will
not be an issue since you will use a single one-row table per label, right?