Position Text on new blank line

[boswellgw]

I would like to position some text on a new page at certain character
positions, ie, 40 spaces from the start, 60 spaces from the start, etc.
Using ".MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=40" does no good since the
blank line doesn't have "characters". Is there an equivalent code to
position text as I described?

Thanks,

Garry

 

[JR]

I believe that the best you're going to get is set a tab for the location,
since not all characters have the same spacings, so Word is lost when you
say 40 characters ("w" is much wider than "i"). If you are using a font
size of 12, I believe that will get you roughly 10 characters per inch, you
could set a tab of 4" for 40 characters. That's just arithmetic!
John

 

[boswellgw]

I understand what you are saying. I tried to use the tab approach but
since the information for the "fields" is variable in length, I don't
get the text to line up with that method. It surprises me that you
can't specify a location on a blank page and put text at that location.
I may have to just create a table and make the columns the desired
width and put the information in the various columns.

Surely I'm not the first person to have the need to line up text on a
blank page. I thought that there would be an easy answer! Oh well.

Thanks for the answer. It helps even though it doesn't solve the
problem because I won't keep looking for something that is not there.

garry

 

[boswellgw]

I understand what you are saying. I tried to use the tab approach but
since the information for the "fields" is variable in length, I don't
get the text to line up with that method. It surprises me that you
can't specify a location on a blank page and put text at that location.
I may have to just create a table and make the columns the desired
width and put the information in the various columns.

Surely I'm not the first person to have the need to line up text on a
blank page. I thought that there would be an easy answer! Oh well.

Thanks for the answer. It helps even though it doesn't solve the
problem because I won't keep looking for something that is not there.

garry

 

[Carol]

Simply set your margins for where you want your text to begin.

Carol