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alexpgpI never really realized that if you keep hitting the Tab key while in Print Layout view in Word, the cursor will jump across the page and then go to the next line.
Do you see the possibilities here?
I am the proud owner of a source document, a couple of thousand words long, containing the expected paragraphs and headings, but only about three paragraph marks in all because all of the formatting (including centered headings) was done using strings of tab characters!
Need to skip a line?
Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, and Tab.
Voilá! All set for a new paragraph! No problem!
Aaarghhh!
Spacing that didn't fit conveniently in the scheme of Word's default tabs was taken care of by setting tabs, which probably explains the three paragraph characters.
The document looks like a word processing version of Hitchcock's Rope.
Do you have any idea of what happens to a document like this if you try to edit it or translate it? The layout discombobulates into a sticky mess, and that's if you're lucky.
Ye gods.
Cheers...
Do you see the possibilities here?
I am the proud owner of a source document, a couple of thousand words long, containing the expected paragraphs and headings, but only about three paragraph marks in all because all of the formatting (including centered headings) was done using strings of tab characters!
Need to skip a line?
Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, Tab, and Tab.
Voilá! All set for a new paragraph! No problem!
Aaarghhh!
Spacing that didn't fit conveniently in the scheme of Word's default tabs was taken care of by setting tabs, which probably explains the three paragraph characters.
The document looks like a word processing version of Hitchcock's Rope.
Do you have any idea of what happens to a document like this if you try to edit it or translate it? The layout discombobulates into a sticky mess, and that's if you're lucky.
Ye gods.
Cheers...
