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How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line?
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How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? There is only one dashed line with the same bigger dashes in Word. Thanks |
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Hi dimitry
Dmitry Kopnichev wrote: How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? There is only one dashed line with the same bigger dashes in Word. As long as you're talking about a border as in Format | Borders and Shading, I'm afraid there doesn't seem to be any way (short of increasing the line width size, which probably isn't exactly what you are looking for). You could technically try to build your own line comprised of grouped lines from the Draw toolbar, but you will run into a lot more positioning problems than with a text-layer paragraph/table border. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm not talking about a border as in Format | Borders and Shading, but about an Autoshape, a dashed line and it's properties. What program to use to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? I want to create a table border with + (plus) sign at the intersections of border dashed lines. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Hi dimitry Dmitry Kopnichev wrote: How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? There is only one dashed line with the same bigger dashes in Word. As long as you're talking about a border as in Format | Borders and Shading, I'm afraid there doesn't seem to be any way (short of increasing the line width size, which probably isn't exactly what you are looking for). You could technically try to build your own line comprised of grouped lines from the Draw toolbar, but you will run into a lot more positioning problems than with a text-layer paragraph/table border. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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I want to create a table border with + (plus) sign at the intersections of
border dashed lines as in the attached file. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Hi dimitry Dmitry Kopnichev wrote: How to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? There is only one dashed line with the same bigger dashes in Word. As long as you're talking about a border as in Format | Borders and Shading, I'm afraid there doesn't seem to be any way (short of increasing the line width size, which probably isn't exactly what you are looking for). You could technically try to build your own line comprised of grouped lines from the Draw toolbar, but you will run into a lot more positioning problems than with a text-layer paragraph/table border. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Dmitry Kopnichev wrote:
I'm not talking about a border as in Format | Borders and Shading, but about an Autoshape, a dashed line and it's properties. What program to use to increase spaces between dashes in the dashed line? I want to create a table border with + (plus) sign at the intersections of border dashed lines. I don't think there's a way to manipulate that: certainly not through the UI, and I doubt it's accessible through VBA. [I'm pretty sure I'm contradicted if any of the developers reading this and I'm wrong. :-)] You'll probably have to "paint" such a table externaly, or paint each part of your line seperately. Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Dmitry Kopnichev wrote:
I want to create a table border with + (plus) sign at the intersections of border dashed lines as in the attached file. You could of course do it exactly like the picture you attached to this text-only groups indicates: Use a fixed-width font and one character for each item. I would certainly not bother with that: Your picture shows how a typewriter had to lay out a table. Word can do a bit better nowadays ... :-) 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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The problem is that - and + sign's horizontal lines are on different levels
(-+). On my picture they are on the same level. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Dmitry Kopnichev wrote: I want to create a table border with + (plus) sign at the intersections of border dashed lines as in the attached file. You could of course do it exactly like the picture you attached to this text-only groups indicates: Use a fixed-width font and one character for each item. I would certainly not bother with that: Your picture shows how a typewriter had to lay out a table. Word can do a bit better nowadays ... :-) 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Dmitry Kopnichev wrote:
The problem is that - and + sign's horizontal lines are on different levels (-+). On my picture they are on the same level. That certainly depends on the font used: in a sensible Unicode font, this should not happen (if you use the true "Minus" sign, U+2212 in Hex). Also no problem if you use a standard fixed-width font like "Courier New". Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Yes. You are right that - and + sign's horizontal lines are on the same
levels in "Courier New". How to chose a Unicode font in Word? "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Dmitry Kopnichev wrote: The problem is that - and + sign's horizontal lines are on different levels (-+). On my picture they are on the same level. That certainly depends on the font used: in a sensible Unicode font, this should not happen (if you use the true "Minus" sign, U+2212 in Hex). Also no problem if you use a standard fixed-width font like "Courier New". Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Dmitry Kopnichev wrote:
Yes. You are right that - and + sign's horizontal lines are on the same levels in "Courier New". How to chose a Unicode font in Word? It needs to be installed on your PC, then you can select it in Word. I reckon that at least one such font comes with Office 2002 or 2003 (Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode, some such stuff). Ahh, http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/font...idasansunicode claims that's is even been part of Windows 2000 and XP. Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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