Re: Center information by ( in each line

You need both a Right tab and a Left tab stop set for those paragraphs.

1) Each line must be a new paragraph (tab settings are a paragraph
property, you can't set tabs in a "line")

2) Set your Right tab where you want your left column to END (say, 5 cm)

3) Set your Left tab where you want your Right column to START (say, 6 cm)

4) Begin each paragraph with a tab (NOT an indent) to push the left column
up to the position of its right tab.

5) Place a tab immediately before the left parenthesis.

Cheers


On 7/6/06 12:14 AM, in article
1149603255.565321.55660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "TjL"
<luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a list of data that I would like to organize to look better by
having a uniform appearance.

Each line has some text followed by additional text in ( )
I would like to center the data, and have the opening ( be the center
of each line.

So rather than

groceries (milk, eggs, butter)
Back to school supplies (pencils, paper, notebook)
Pie (apple)

It would look something like this (which will probably only look right
if you have a fixed width font, but you'll get the idea...oh and I
added leading periods for folks who will see this in HTML which would
otherwise collapse the space if it was just whitespace, but really I'd
want there to be blank space there)

..............groceries (milk, eggs, butter)

Back to school supplies (pencils, paper, notebook)
....................Pie (apple)


I'd like to think that Word could do this, but I can't figure out how
it might.


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