30 Character Magic

[Guest]

I have a document that has underlining that change after 30 characters,
including spaces. I will try to explain the best I can. Say for example one
section has the following; Project Name: ________ The underline portion is
about 3 inches long using a tab to control length. If I select "bold" type
and type in a project name less than 30 characters long including spaces, the
line remains thin. However, as soon as I type in that magic 30th character,
the line thickens as if it has also become bold and it prints that way also,
looking very unprofessional having some lines thin and others thick. I can
even put in just spaces and at the 30th space, the line gets thick. I like
having the filled in portion in boldface but wish the lines would just stay
their normal thickness. Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts? Hey you over
there, stop laughing.

 

[Guest]

I might be wrong on this guess, but it sounds as if you're attempting to
create a fill-in form object. If thats the case, I've had the same problem
that you're currently experiencing and it made my life much easier when I
abandoned the traditional paragraph approach and used a 2 or 3 column table,
with the first column contining my fill-in prompts (First Name:, Address:,
etc...) and then using the border function to only place a border at the
bottom of the fill-in cells of the table.

 

[Guest]

I might be wrong on this guess, but it sounds as if you're attempting to
create a fill-in form object. If thats the case, I've had the same problem
that you're currently experiencing and it made my life much easier when I
abandoned the traditional paragraph approach and used a 2 or 3 column table,
with the first column contining my fill-in prompts (First Name:, Address:,
etc...) and then using the border function to only place a border at the
bottom of the fill-in cells of the table.

 

[Guest]

The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using
Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this
would be the same as a tab leader. Unfortunately, I have this and others
like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I
don't like getting into nested tables. The document is already quite busy at
it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole
document off.

 

[Guest]

The underline is created using Ctrl U to turn on underlining and then using
Tab to extend the line out (rather than using the spacebar). I guess this
would be the same as a tab leader. Unfortunately, I have this and others
like it (all of them change at 30 characters) already in a table cell and I
don't like getting into nested tables. The document is already quite busy at
it is and any changes to table cell heights or spacing throws the whole
document off.