Solid line

[OfficeNDN]

I would like to know about lines.

I would like to have a solid line from the left margin meet my text "Section
1" (which is centered), stop for the text, then pick up after the text and
continue to the right margin. The solid line would be at the "height" of a
hyphen.

It would look something like this:

-------------------------------------Section
1-------------------------------------------------

but instead of a hyphen there would be a solid line.

How do I accomplish this?

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry, you may be able to jerry-rig something like that with drawn lines or
Text Boxes, but it is not something that can be done by Word's formatting
features. The closest thing would be an underscore tab leader, but that
would be at the text baseline, not midline.

Someone else may have some other ideas, but "holding it together" through
further editing won't be easy.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[dp]

I have never made a suggestion, so if this is crazy or too much trouble, just
ignore me. I made a table (3 columns - 1 row - table properties option for
cell margins at 0 - no borders) center column just wide enough for text and
used a series of em dashes in first and third colums. The em dashes printed
as a solid line on my printer.

 

[dp]

I was thinking about this last night and realized you don't need a table. I
typed the word Section 1 and saw that the centered word started at position
2.75. I changed the alignment to left, used the em dash continuously to 2.75
which moved the text, then at end of text continued with the em dashes to the
margin.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you don't have too many of these to do, try this:

1. In your section heading style, add a center-aligned tab at the center of
the line and a right-aligned tab at the right margin.

2. To insert a heading, press Tab, type your heading, and press Tab again.

3. Select the first tab character and press Ctrl+U to underline it. If you
want a heavier line, make it Bold.

4. With the tab character still selected, right-click and choose Font. On
the Character Spacing tab of the Font dialog, choose Position: Raised by an
appropriate amount (I used 5 points for 12-point text).

5. Repeat for the second tab character. If you want a little "breathing
room" between the lines and your text, you can add a space before and after
the text (and make sure the underline is not applied to it).

When you have the appearance the way you want it, define a character style
that is Default Paragraph Font + Underline, Raised by 5 pt (or whatever),
and assign it a keyboard shortcut.