Word block copy - insane in the membrane

[chuck miller]

i am fairly new to word and i hope this is the right forum. i cut a block
of text from one document and insert the block at a tab stop in in another
document. the cut block will be 10 characters wide and 15 lines longs.
when i try to insert it at the tab stop the block inserts itself as new
lines, rather than inserting itself at the tab stop. this is a fairly easy
thing to do in most text editors and i know word can do this and i can get
it to insert properly intermitently. i use the alt key and the mouse to
select a block of text in the one document.

tia,
chuck

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Chuck,

i am fairly new to word and i hope this is the right forum.

..newusers would have been more appropriate AFAICT (at least I can't see
what it has to do with long documents ), but welcome nevertheless.

i cut a block of text from one document and insert the block at a tab
stop in in another document. the cut block will be 10 characters
wide and 15 lines longs. when i try to insert it at the tab stop the
block inserts itself as new lines, rather than inserting itself at
the tab stop.

How do you "insert it at the tab stop" ...? Do you have a paragraph
consisting of nothing but a <tab> character? Maybe Word does some
AutoFormat for you (you can check this with peeking at the Undo-Command
after you insert your text).

this is a fairly easy thing to do in most text editors and i know
word can do this and i can get it to insert properly intermitently.
i use the alt key and the mouse to select a block of text in the one
document.

Ah, but then again, Word is a word processor, not a text editor! Almost
everything is gouverned by styles in Word. If you want text indented (at
the first line only, or at all lines in a given paragraph), your best
bet is to setup a style which has these paragraph settings and apply it
to your text.

Greetinx
..bob
...Word-MVP