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Old August 26th, 2008, 01:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
86general
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Default How to put text on a table line

I am trying to use word to construct chord and scale charts for guitar
students.

This involves drawing grids, in which the horizontal lines represent guitar
strings, and the vertical lines represent the frets on the guitar.

When playing a guitar, you obviously put your finger directly on the
strings, so to use an MS Word table, you'd have to have a way to center the
text on the actual table grid line, not within the cell. Does that make
sense? In other words, like strikethrough, but typing directly on the table
cell lines.

Can anyone think of a way to do this in Word?

Thanks.
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Old August 26th, 2008, 04:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Jay Freedman
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Default How to put text on a table line

86general wrote:
I am trying to use word to construct chord and scale charts for guitar
students.

This involves drawing grids, in which the horizontal lines represent
guitar strings, and the vertical lines represent the frets on the
guitar.

When playing a guitar, you obviously put your finger directly on the
strings, so to use an MS Word table, you'd have to have a way to
center the text on the actual table grid line, not within the cell.
Does that make sense? In other words, like strikethrough, but typing
directly on the table cell lines.

Can anyone think of a way to do this in Word?

Thanks.


What you want to do makes sense, but Word can't do it without a lot of
finicky positioning of floating objects.

It would be a lot less work to either get a program that's designed for this
(ask Google about "guitar tabulature software") or to use a drawing program
to create jpg files of all the chord charts. You could insert these into a
Word document as pictures if you need a Word document.

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