View position

[Berend Veldkamp]

Is there a way for me to set Word so I can see the position of a character
in inches from the left edge of the page? Telling me what column it is is
pretty useless for me.

Thanks.

Kathryn

This has been bothering me for a long time. Your post, and especially
the replies made me determined to solve it

I ended up with the following macro, and attached it to a toolbar
button. This shows the position relative to the page margin, if you
prefer position relative to the page, use
"wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage".

Sub ShowCursorPosition()
Application.StatusBar =
Str(Application.Selection.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToTextBoundary)
/ 72) + """"
End Sub


This macro doesn't give "live" information, but it's possible to run it
automatically whenever you move the cursor. Let me know if you need
instructions.

HTH, Berend

 

[JohnR]

Have you thought of creating a new "style", to suit the criteria that you
want in regards to spacings, indents, fonts etc, and applying this to any
new documents that you must work with, or import ????
John

 

[Zilbandy]

This whole thread would not be an issue if using Wordperfect 5,1 for
DOS. "Advance to pos" in reveal codes. Unfortunately, we have
'advanced' to the current versions of software. Corel's
Wordperfect with a newer version MAY do what you want, but with Word,
it's not gonna happen. I only moved to Word because that's what
the world seems to have moved to. I'd still be using the DOS version
of Wordperfect if I didn't need to supply documents to clients.