Lost Tabs!

[Rudy Moore]

ON2007 Beta 2, Tech Refresh.

Okay, I just ran into a very strange problem with OneNote. It lost track of
tabs in an entire page.

Normally, tabs are at a small regular distance apart, like this:After the problem occured, half the tabs are just gone. So it looks
somethikng like thisyour font may make this not look quite right, but you get the idea...)

The entire page was affected. Things that were at the tabs in between were
all shifted to the right to the next tab location.

New text that is written can only be written at these larger tab stops. And
I've never been able to find where tab stops can actually be set in the
program.

The page is mostly typed. I was adding my first drawing on that page. It
didn't occur until after I had switch back to the typing area and by that
time I couldn't undo the change since each stroke of the drawing counts as a
single undo point and the undo buffer is pretty small. The drawing was to
the left of the main outline area...

So far, it's only affected one page, but it's a large one and it's going to
cause me a lot of troubles to fix! I hope they found this before the program
went gold.

Rudy

 

[Rudy Moore]

Minor update

At least in part, OneNote still knows the tabs are there. When I right
click the little four-way arrow icon and say "select all at this level," I
get only those elements that should be with that particular item...

It might just be a display problem....

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

What is the zoom view level for the page in question? Has the size of the
text also changed from what you remember?

 

[Rudy Moore]

No. Size of fonts other character spacing is the same.

I've posted a screen capture of an example here:
http://rudymoore.com/images/tab problem.jpg

I've figured out that it's specific to this particular note space. (What's
the word you use for a single text block?) To make the example in the jpeg,
I started a new note space, typed in the first text at each of a few
different tab levels. Then I copied the text and pasted it into the buggered
note space. The pasted text picks up the tab distances in the buggered note
space. (Note that it's not quite as I thought it was in the description
above.)

Rudy