---- Original message ---- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:54:54 -0600 From: Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [users] How to underline a blank line of text, such that it could be typed? To: [email protected]
>On 1/2/2011 2:33 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> A user is making forms for herself and other therapists. These forms >> will be printed, and to specify the place where text is to be typed >> there are lines on the page, created with four dashes and one Enter >> per line. >> >> This works fine, but the original author wants to type out her forms >> for herself, instead of filling in the printed ones. she has no >> problem typing on the lines created with the dashes, but when the text >> wraps a line the top line looses it's underline! How can she prevent >> this from happening? Should she use a different type of line? >> >> If I was unsuccessful in describing the situation, then here are steps >> to reproduce: >> 1) In a new document press dash three times and press enter. >> 2) Now pres upArrow, enter, enter, upArrow, upArrow. >> 3) Now type a line long enough to wrap. >> >> >> Thanks! > >I think that's because the automatically generated line isn't a line-width paragraph of underlined >characters, but an empty paragraph with a bottom border. (The behavior is controlled by the option >to "Apply borders" under AutoCorrect.) If the supplied text wraps, the border stays below the whole >paragraph. There really isn't a good way to get natural wrapping together with the border effect >(that is, the appearance of multiple full-width lines with text above them), so far as I can tell. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
