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Thanks. That works. It seems like a lot of extra trouble, but it works and that’s what counts. Thanks so much.

I modify the table of authorities style, creating a right indent. This indents the text portion of the table, while the tab creating the . . .page# stays to the right margin. You can modify the style in the insert table authorities dialog or you can just highlight the table when you are done and drag a right indent, making sure to leave the right margin tab in place. I think modifying the style is better. It has been a while since I’ve done this, but I think with the style modified the change held when the table had to be regenerated.

Hi Hans! Thanks so much! I tried this out first thing this morning and it works great. It never would have occurred to me that I could use the same field twice to sort/group by. Again, thanks!

The report is sorted, grouped by Employee, then year. So I have all of a person’s employment history under the name, organized by year. Like
John Q. Public
1924 ABC Company accountant
DEF Company chief payroll officer
1925 ABC Company accountant
1926 DEF Company chief payroll officer

Am I making sense here? I want it by name, then year. I used the name as a group header because I do not want it to repeat with each entry. Same with year.

This is not working for me. I don’t have a choice of first character. I can choose from Each Value, which is how I had it set, or Prefix Characters. I tried Prefix Characters, then used 1 on the next line which allegedly should be the number of characters and I completed the rest. But I got a funky result. The resulting preview of the report picked the third name in the A’s and showed all of the data for everyone under that name, B’s moved way down the list and showed all the data under the one name it showed. I must be doing something wrong but I don’t see what. I had the report set up with FullName as a group header, then Year. I changed year so it is not a group header anymore, thinking that might be causing some problem. I tried moving the name into the Detail section, but that gave me a similar result, except it kept repeating three names.

I do not use the draw table. I think it’s too much trouble. The document with the table in frames was not started as a draw table. The only thing I saw in common with this string was the manual page breaks. But your comment causes me to think that perhaps someone used that feature to copy and paste, to get the table format to the next page after their manual page break. That would explain a lot. I didn’t think the person who worked on this would be trying to put things in frames on purpose. Thanks. Now I think I know what could have caused this.

I do not use the draw table. I think it’s too much trouble. The document with the table in frames was not started as a draw table. The only thing I saw in common with this string was the manual page breaks. But your comment causes me to think that perhaps someone used that feature to copy and paste, to get the table format to the next page after their manual page break. That would explain a lot. I didn’t think the person who worked on this would be trying to put things in frames on purpose. Thanks. Now I think I know what could have caused this.

I recently had a problem with a table someone here was working on. They too had put in manual page breaks, which by the way I think are totally useless, and when I took out those page breaks I had a real mess. Eventually I figured out that the table was in a frame. Is Word putting a frame in when manual page breaks are used in a lengthy table? I found it hard to understand how or why the frames were used and frankly I would be surprised that the frames were put in by the person who was working on the table. But if Word is somehow again doing a “favor” by using frames when a manual page break is used, that is something I’d like to get out to everyone to help discourage the use of manual page breaks.

I recently had a problem with a table someone here was working on. They too had put in manual page breaks, which by the way I think are totally useless, and when I took out those page breaks I had a real mess. Eventually I figured out that the table was in a frame. Is Word putting a frame in when manual page breaks are used in a lengthy table? I found it hard to understand how or why the frames were used and frankly I would be surprised that the frames were put in by the person who was working on the table. But if Word is somehow again doing a “favor” by using frames when a manual page break is used, that is something I’d like to get out to everyone to help discourage the use of manual page breaks.

Jay, thanks! I’m not very good with Visual Basic but I seem to have managed to make this work. Thanks again.

Jay, thanks! I’m not very good with Visual Basic but I seem to have managed to make this work. Thanks again.

I went to check and some of the settings I had checked were unchecked. I’m also having a problem with the clipboard forgetting that I do not want to see it. Every day I have to uncheck the option to automatically show clipboard. I dislike clipboard and rarely use it, so I’m finding this really irritating. If there’s a fix for clipboard or some other place I should be checking to make it stay away unless I want it, I’d really appreciate the info.

I went to check and some of the settings I had checked were unchecked. I’m also having a problem with the clipboard forgetting that I do not want to see it. Every day I have to uncheck the option to automatically show clipboard. I dislike clipboard and rarely use it, so I’m finding this really irritating. If there’s a fix for clipboard or some other place I should be checking to make it stay away unless I want it, I’d really appreciate the info.

I may be confused but the no width optional break will make plaintiff/counterdefendant will wrap after the slash. And I was meaning to convey that you can search for plaintiff/counterdefendant and find all occurrences, those with and without the optional break. The article goes into a wild card method of searching because it will not find plaintiff/defendant with the ASCI no width space in it.

I may be confused but the no width optional break will make plaintiff/counterdefendant will wrap after the slash. And I was meaning to convey that you can search for plaintiff/counterdefendant and find all occurrences, those with and without the optional break. The article goes into a wild card method of searching because it will not find plaintiff/defendant with the ASCI no width space in it.