Footers staying within one line

[Guest]

Hello All,
I've got a problem with footers. It seems (from the best I can tell) that a
footer will not automatically compress itself to one line. What I mean: The
footer contains address (left side of footer) and copyright information
(right side of footer). The address might be long enough to push the footer
to two lines. We'd normally delete spaces between the two items but I've
been asked if the footer will do it automatically. Can it?

Many thanks,
John

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Instead of using spaces, use the built-in tab stops. If you will not have
anything in the center, delete the center tab stop so that only the right
stop at the right margin remains. Type the address, Tab once, and type the
copyright information.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

That could work, but the address and copyright info is already in place so it
doesn't have to be typed. We have a dummy address in place that gets
selected and retyped with the new address - that's when the two line issue
appears (if the address is long enough. If the address is short, it could
also shorten the line enough that we have to add spaces).

Do we set up some kind of justify right for this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you want the address on the left and the copyright info on the left, you
follow the directions I provided: Type the address, press Tab once, and type
the copyright info. If you have deleted the center tab stop in the header
paragraph, the only tab stop left will be the right tab stop at the right
margin, and the copyright info will go there.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

John,

If I understand your question correctly, you need two areas of info in the
footer: (1) the address and (2) the copyright. The address text may be long
enough to take up more than 1 line, but you want it to truncate to (a) just 1
line and (b) before the right side of that line, where the copyright info
goes.

If so, insert a 2-column, 1-row table into the footer. Adjust the column
widths so that the left (i.e., address) column is (presumably) much wider
than the right column. (You probably also want the right column to be
right-aligned.) Select the entire table then set Table > Table Properties >
Borders button > None. For the address column, set Table > Table Properties

Row tab > Specify Row Height to 0.02" (works for a single line of text with

12 pt Times New Roman; test for other fonts/font sizes) and set Row Height to
"Exactly." This will "lock" the address column to displaying just 1 line of
text, no matter how much text is actually there.

Is that what you needed?

-- Sarah

 

[Guest]

Okay, here's the real problem:
I was told two-line footers were showing up everywhere in the document, but
in reality (after my own inspection of the report), one page that gets
inserted via AutoText ends up having a footer that doesn't have the same
width as the other footers; it's missing about a half inch on the left,
pushing the text in the footer to two lines. I have other issues with these
inserted pages (they're too deep for me at this time) but I can usually solve
them. This little footer problem on the one page is tough. Can it be solved?

Many thanks,
John

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UnaccountablyIndented.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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