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From: carl@p4tustin.UUCP (Carl W. Bergerson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word for Windows Query
Keywords: Yes, I RTFM before I posted.
Message-ID: <1124@p4tustin.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:19:07 GMT
References: <1568@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: carl@p4tustin.UUCP (Carl W. Bergerson)
Organization: POINT 4 Data Corporation, Tustin
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In article <1568@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell) writes:
>Anybody know how to do negative leading in Word for Windows?
>
>Lets say I have two paragraphs, call them Para One and Para Two. When I type
>them in, they look like this. (for the purposes of this article, let the '$'
>character stand for the end of paragraph symbol.)
>
>Para One$
>
>Para Two starts here and runs on for a while, without really saying anything.$
>
>However, I want to format them so they will print like this:
>
>Parag One$	Para Two starts here and runs on for 
>           a while, with out really saying anything.$
>
>Now, you might why I want to do this, well several of the manuals
>I'm working on have notes, cautions, and warnings stored in this fashion.
...

If what you are trying to do is:

Note=>   This is some really helpful information about the current
		 topic that I thought you might like to know but it didn't
		 really fit in with the flow of information.

Then, I'd suggest using negative indents. I don't have the W4W manuals
handy so I may not have used their term for the feature :-)

On the other hand if you are trying to do something like:

This is a     And this is the definition which runs on
term to be    and on and on ....
defined

I'd use W4W's table feature to handle it. This is one of the best features
of W4W, it is almost as flexible as tbl and one heck of a lot easier
to learn.

Good Luck, email me if you need more help.
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Carl Bergerson               carl@point4.com             uunet!p4tustin!carl