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Using "Other Codes"
in WordPerfect
(Format >
Line > Other Codes)
Related pages -
Hyphens,
hard hyphens [a/k/a "hyphen characters"], soft hyphens,
and hyphenation soft returns . . . What they are and how they
work
Indent
paragraphs with dot leaders |
Format > Line > Other Codes
brings up this dialog:
[Some of the above format codes
can be inserted with existing
shortcuts or assigned to a <shortcut key>.]
- Hard space [HSpace]. Hard spaces, like hard hyphens [a/k/a
"hyphen characters"], are useful in several circumstances,
to "glue" words, numbers or dates together to prevent
them from splitting to the next line by word wrap. The default
shortcut key to insert a hard space is <Ctrl+Space>.
- [See also HSPACER,
a macro to convert regular spaces in a selection of text
to hard spaces. See also "Pasting
as unformatted text": WordPerfect 11 and later versions
converts hard spaces to regular spaces when you paste this way,
but you can use a macro to avoid this.]
- Hard tabs and Hard tabs with dot leaders.
Hard tabs do not change when you change tab settings. Use a hard
tab when you need to insert a tab without changing the tab type
of affect the tabs for the rest of the document.
- For example, you can add a hard
tab to one line in a paragraph and not change the tabs set for
the other lines. You can also insert a hard tab with a dot leader.
[For more on indenting paragraphs with dot leaders see here.]
- You can use <Ctrl+Shift+Tab>
to enter a hard back tab.
- End centering/alignment [End
Cntr/Align]. This code
is often used with line centering (Format > Line > Center),
right tabs, or decimal tabs. It doesn't turn off justification,
it simply stops previous text alignment when you insert
it in a line of text, up to the next alignment code or up to
a return to ordinary text.
- For example, if you want to
add text to the end of the centered line without also pushing
the other text leftward, you would type some text, insert a line-center
code ([Hd Center on Marg]) with <Shift+F7>,
then insert the End centering/alignment code from the dialog
(see above), then type the new (non-centered) text.
- Another example: If you want
to line up numbers or words in a tabbed list with a right tab,
but you want to add an asterisk (*) to the end of a number/word
(which would normally throw the items out of alignment), just
insert the End centering/alignment code [End Cntr/Align]
after the number/word and immediately type the astersisk or other
material. [Thanks to Jycast, Robin, and Noal Mellot at WordPerfect
Universe for this tip.]
- Hyphens. See "Hyphens, hard hyphens [a/k/a "hyphen
characters"], soft hyphens, and hyphenation soft returns
. . . What they are and how they work" here.
- Cancel hyphenation of word. This codes wraps words that span the
hyphenation zone to the next line.
- Thousands separator. You can change the character used to
separate hundreds from thousands.
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