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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tables using WordPerfect 5.0
Message-ID: <8790@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Jun 89 21:52:02 GMT
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In article <5430@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:

>>We've struggled with this one too. In WP5 you can't use line draw
>>with proportionally spaced fonts.

>Does the "text in a box" function work for this?

Yes, the graphic boxes and lines and text boxes use measurement-based
positioning and work with proportional fonts.  It is a lot of work to
position everything and the only way to get existing text in a box
is to create the text box, then move the text into it.

This is one area where MS Word is much easier to use than WP.  Word
lets you specify a border as part of a paragraph format and vertical
lines (that close properly with the border) can be positioned in the
tab settings.  That can all be saved as a style, so you can import
an area from a lotus file (directly), apply the style to set up the
tab settings and lines and print.  If you want more horizontal lines,
just add paragraph breaks.

Les Mikesell