Command for * to the end of the line

[RHodge]

I'm not exactly a new Word user, but was a Word Perfect user for years
and years. Word Perfect has a command, Alt, F7, that allowed a used
to underline to the end of the line. This saves a lot of time in
tabbing to the last tab. It always assured uniform lines at the right
margin of my forms/documents. Is there a similar function in Word? I
have questioned many Word users, but no one has found an answer thus
far for me! Please help.

 

[Tracy]

There is no Word equilavent to WordPerfect's Flush Right command. You would
have to set a custom tab at the right margin and tab to it to achieve a
similar effect.


(e-mail address removed) (RHodge) wrote in @posting.google.com:

 

[Tammy]

Hi,

Shift+End will select the text from the cursor location to the end of
the line and then Ctrl+U will underline it - not sure of any quicker
ways to do this in Word. You could record a macro and assign it to
the Alt+F7 keys (if you didn't need the command they're assigned to at
the moment). Others out there may know of a Word standard short cut
key to do this.

You can get a list of Word shortcut keys by going to Tools > Macros >
Macros and changing the "Macros in" box to "Word Commands". Scroll
down the list and choose "List commands" then press Run. This will
create a document with all Words commands and shortcuts - comes in
handy!

Cheers,
Tammy

 

[Character]

I'm not exactly a new Word user, but was a Word Perfect user for years
and years. Word Perfect has a command, Alt, F7, that allowed a used
to underline to the end of the line. This saves a lot of time in
tabbing to the last tab. It always assured uniform lines at the right
margin of my forms/documents. Is there a similar function in Word? I
have questioned many Word users, but no one has found an answer thus
far for me! Please help.

Easy to do, a little hard to find

Set a right tab where you want the underscores to end.
Menu Format / Tabs
Select the tab position (if there's more than one)
Select the leader style you want. The options are none, dots, hyphens,
and underscores.

BTW - I found this by first Googling in 'groups' for "tab underscores";
found a reference to the word "leader". Then went back to Word HELP and
looked up LEADER. I remembered that it had something to do with tabs,
because years ago I did a table of contents filled with dots between the
text and the page number.

- Character