[mso] Re: Forms Merge Document

Thanks Pruscoe,
 
I see that underscored spaces instead of the typed underscore does allow  the 
underscores to line up. 
 
But if I use spaces after the merge field, any subsequent entry title will  
be pushed to the right or shortened based upon the length of the merge field's  
results, so that each resulting form will have any second and subsequent 
entry  title and data all over the place.
 
E.G., 
Name: <<mergefield>>_______  Sex:  <<mergefield>>__  Age: <mergefield>>___
 ... might become
Name: Joe______ Sex: M__ Age: 36____
Name: Samantha______ Sex: F__ Age: 9____
 
(Note: all <<mergefield>>s are underscored, as are the  resulting data)
 
In my case in an attempt to keep subsequent title/data fields aligned  across 
the resulting forms, I use tabs with leading underscores (which aren't  
aligned). And this causes another problem over and above the misaligned  
underscores ... the location where the tab character is inserted in the text is 
 not 
underscored.
 
So in the case of: Name: <<mergefield>>{(leading  underscore)tab} Sex: ... 
etc.
the result is: Name: Joe{space}______ Sex: ... etc.
 
I think that these are Word problems/bugs that should be addressed my our  
Microsoft Office developers, don't you think?
 
Larry
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Linden, New  Jersey

In a message dated 1/27/2008 2:01:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

know  what you mean, Larry, and it is not limited to merge-type  fields. I  
think your issue has to do with the fact that the  underlines for  text do 
not 
line up with the underscore "_" character.  So if you are  using that 
character 
for the portion before and after the merge   fields, that is the reason. The 
fix is to use underlined spaces   instead. 




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