Narrative reports - tabs

simonx · Post by **simonx** » 09 Mar 2007 10:35

I am a big fan of narrative reports as the best way of sending information to relatives round the world (as MS Word documents).

When I save a report, the tab before the list of children (which was .5 in FH (my choice)) becomes 2.5 in Word. I then have to live with the extra pages or modify each block of children in the Word document.

Is there something I can do?

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 09 Mar 2007 11:32

Why not just change the tab settings in word?

simonx · Post by **simonx** » 09 Mar 2007 12:23

Alas each block of children is a table in Word, so I have to go and modify the column widths of each table in turn - a bit of a pain for 30 tables.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 09 Mar 2007 13:23

I am not a great Word user, but can't you write a macro to do this, or see if there is a style associated with the table which can be changed.

JonAxtell · Post by **JonAxtell** » 09 Mar 2007 15:55

The problem is that there is a blank column in the table to inset the list of children. This has to be deleted or it's width modified.

The solution is to load the .RTF file in a text editor like Notepad or Write and do a search and replace on a particular string of characters. This allows the width of the first column in the table to be adjusted.

Look for cellx2052 and replace the 2052 with a lower number, something like 752 which seems to be about an inch I think. Play around to get the effect you want.

A bit of a hack, and not guaranteed to stay workable, and not guaranteed to produce the results you want either. [tongue]

HTH

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