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Mysteriously Moving Margins in Word

In Microsoft Word 2008 (and older versions), if you put your cursor in a paragraph and then move a tab or indent marker in the ruler, the change applies to just that paragraph. If your markers are closely spaced, you may have trouble grabbing the right one, and inadvertently work with tabs when you want to work with indents, or vice-versa. The solution is to hover your mouse over the marker until a yellow tooltip confirms which element you're about to drag.

I recently came to appreciate the importance of waiting for those tooltips: a document mysteriously reset its margins several times while I was under deadline pressure, causing a variety of problems. After several hours of puzzlement, I had my "doh!" moment: I had been dragging a margin marker when I thought I was dragging an indent marker.

When it comes to moving markers in the Word ruler, the moral of the story is always to hover, read, and only then drag.

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Fred Berg writes:

Parts of "The Internet Companion" by Tracey LaQuey and Jeanne C. Ryer, which was reviewed in TidBITS-164, are available via anonymous FTP from <world.std.com> in the directory: </OBS/The.Internet.Companion./>.

Barry Shein adds:

Further chapters will be released in the future. See the README and COPYRIGHT files in that directory for more details. Direct comments and questions about the book to:

internet-companion@world.std.com

This pioneering effort is a step in bringing together the online electronic and print media, enabling authors to explore new avenues of publishing their works. Comments and inquiries are welcome via email to <obs@world.std.com>.

Information from:
Fred Berg -- Fred_Berg@qmcumc.mail.cornell.edu
Barry Shein -- bzs@world.std.com

 

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