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From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Positioning Paragraphs in Winword, (Was Re: WINWORD: Can I do this...)
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Date: 21 Oct 90 05:00:28 GMT
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Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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I think what you are looking for ( and I may be misinterpreting this) is the
paragraph position feature. This is only available to defined styles. (I sent
someone email that I thought this could be done through a simple
Format-Paragraph, but it can not) If you select Format-Define_Styles, you get
a dialog box that has a button called position. This allows you to specify
the vertical and horizontal positions of the paragraph relative to the margin,
page or column. 

I think you should look at this feature and RTM about it. One thing you will
have to do is set this up in advance for your forms, but since this is a
repetitve task you would have wanted to do this anyway. Each entry field on
your preprinted forms will have to have a style defined for it do that the
unique position can be set. The nice thing is that once you set up your 
style sheet, you won't have to play with it again. You could even write a
macro that would ask for the field information and assign it the correct
style and then automatically print it and save it. Or you could use the 
"fill-in" field feature and just open a new doc with that style sheet, choose
File-Print with the update fields option selected and before it is printed
you will be prompted to fill in the fields. Then it will print it and you can
save it.

These are really neat features. Let me know how you fair.

Richard.


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