When designing your own forms in Microsoft Word, you may occasionally encounter problems in knowing how to create the particular sections or features that you need. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful solutions for a reader’s Microsoft Word woes.
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
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The Question
SuperUser reader MathMajor wants to know how to create evenly spaced letter slots for forms in Microsoft Word:
How do you create evenly spaced letter slots for forms in Microsoft Word?
Is there a way to do this without drawing the lines manually? Preferably, the lines will look just like the ones shown in the image above.
The Answer
SuperUser contributors Atzmon and wilson have the answer for us. First up, Atzmon:
Followed by the answer from wilson:
Create a table with one row and ten columns Set the width of the leftmost column wide enough to hold your label (3. 5 centimeters, for example) Set the width of the other nine columns to 0. 5 centimeters Remove the top, left, and bottom borders from the left cell (first column) Remove the top border from the other nine cells
And there you have it:
This is what it looks like in Print Preview:
The advantage of this method is that the user can move from cell to cell using the Tab Key, but cannot accidentally break the structure.
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