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Re: Updating Hard Copies of Existing Manuals -Reply
Subject:Re: Updating Hard Copies of Existing Manuals -Reply From:NANCY KAMINSKI <NKAMINS1 -at- FAIRVIEW -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:25:31 -0600
>>> "J. M. Forsyth" wrote:
I want to make a glossary/table in Pagemaker. I've already put the text in
a story, but I want to have the text in two columns that align perfectly,
Hanging indents work perfectly for this. Type a typical entry, not woyying
about the format, for instance:
Entity (tab) The name of the facility where services were
provided.
Open up the Indents/Tab window, and set a tab where the second
column should start. Then slide the bottom triangle of the two triangles
that denote the margin over to the same location as the tab. Close the
window and you'll see that the glossary entry is a nice hanging indent.
Make this into a style, and then you can apply it to all typed
words/definitions.
Hope this helps. If you want a one-page PageMaker example of this style,
I can send you one as an attachment.
Nancy Kaminski
Fairview Hospital and Healthcare Services
Minneapolis, MN
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