Bullets Outside Margins

Rick Baker

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97

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I have a need to place an asteric outside the margins on both sides of a
page. The asteric denotes changes to a letter of agreement between two air
traffic control facilities. Is there an easy way to do this in Word 6?
The only way I have found so far is to manually adjust the margin settings
on the ruler through trial and error.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Rick Baker
rick....@faa.dot.gov
or rwb...@airmail.net

rich

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97

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Hi Rick,

I have Word 7. Maybe you can do something similar
inWord 6.

I do this with different types of bullets using macros.
Here is how I set mine up for left margin:

Set up to Record a macro; assign a shortcut key

Start Recording

1. put the cursor at the beginning of the line where you want the asterisk
2. manually move the margin to where you want the asterisk inserted
3. Type the Asterisk
4. Hit TAB; the line will move back to the original margin
5. Hit the down arrow key. (If you run the macro as you are typing the
document, you must leave a space for the cursor to bump down with
the arrow key so that your margin will reset to the default.)

Close the macro

To run the Macro, place the cursor at the beginning of the line you want and
hit your shortcut key.

I haven't done this for a right margin, but you should be able to Record a similar macro.

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rich

Richard Jones
ri...@cyberg8t.com
Riverside, CA

Rick Baker <rwb...@airmail.net> wrote

John Nurick

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Sep 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/23/97

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On 22 Sep 1997 19:56:33 GMT, "Rick Baker" <rwb...@airmail.net> wrote:

>I have a need to place an asteric outside the margins on both sides of a
>page. The asteric denotes changes to a letter of agreement between two air
>traffic control facilities. Is there an easy way to do this in Word 6?
>The only way I have found so far is to manually adjust the margin settings
>on the ruler through trial and error.

Type the asterisk in a paragraph of its own above or below the
location of the change; select Insert|Frame, and drag the frame to
where you need it. You can define styles for your left and right
asterisks to repeat them easily.

If you only have to mark the changes and don't actually have to do it
with asterisks, you can use Format Borders to put lines alongside the
altered paragraphs.

Possibly, you could use the Revision Marks feature to do it entirely
automatically.

John

I dislocated my e-mail address, and the doctor says it will be
six months before I can see a specialist.

Olisweb

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Sep 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/25/97

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One of our employees has a very weird occurrence now when she bullets
things. The last bullet always shows an underscore beneath the bullet and
it prints as such..

Has anyone seen this before.

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Sandra J. Wampler
Webmaster/Database Manager
OLIS, Inc.
oli...@negia.net

John Nurick

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Sep 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/26/97

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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:04:57 -0700, "Olisweb" <oli...@negia.net>
wrote:

>One of our employees has a very weird occurrence now when she bullets
>things. The last bullet always shows an underscore beneath the bullet and
>it prints as such..

>Has anyone seen this before.

Only when the paragraph mark of the last bulleted paragraph is
formattted as Underlined (remember that the paragraph mark itself
won't display or print with an underline).