[AccessD] Word merge document

Gustav,

The problem is the stinkin user (you know users)

She wants it to look like the document that she prints for anyone who just fills out the form 
manually, so that a person going through these on the first day of VBS can see all registration 
documents looking the same.

So I have a field in my merge document that looks like:

Child/Youth Name: <<Name1>>	Date of Birth: <<DOB1>>
Niño/joven # 1:  Nombre		Fecha de nacimiento:


The words on the consecutive lines need to line up with each other, which I can do with tabs (or 
spaces).  However as the length of <<Name1>> changes, it pushes Date Of Birth out to the left, but 
of course it does not push Fecha de nacimiento around.  And in the end it shouldn't push anything 
around.

This is just ugly!  It seems like you should be able to "paint" the document such that <<Name1>> is 
a fixed width on the final form.  No tabs after it, it just takes X inches of space on the line.

But the merge field has no handles, no obvious way to say "this field is always X units wide".  This 
seems like something that everyone would want and would have been fixed ohhh.... TWENTY years ago?



John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Tables?
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 06-07-2010 14:47 >>>
> 
> The problem I am having is that the data fields shift around as the length of the data changes if I have multiple fields on the same line.
> 
> IOW:
> 
> Name	<<NameData>>	DOB	<<DOBDATA>>
> 
> causes <<DOBData>> to slide left and right as the length of the <<NameData>> changes.
> 
> I cannot seem to find a way to permanently make the fields themselves a specific (fixed) length.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>