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There are many times when your formatting needs call for setting a right tab at the right margin, and making sure it has either an underscore or dot leader on it. This is done quite often if you are creating "manually" laid-out forms. Setting such tabs can be a hassle, however, since it involves the use of the dialog boxes or the ruler and repetitive actions.
If you set quite a few such tabs, you may be interested in the RightTab VBA macro shown below. When run, it examines each paragraph you have selected, clears all their tab stops, and sets a single right tab at the right margin with an underscore leader.
Sub RightTab()
Dim MarPos As Integer, NewPos As Integer
Dim ThisPar As Paragraph
MarPos = Selection.PageSetup.PageWidth - _
Selection.PageSetup.LeftMargin - _
Selection.PageSetup.RightMargin - _
Selection.PageSetup.Gutter
Set myrange = Selection.Range
For Each ThisPar In myrange.Paragraphs
NewPos = MarPos - ThisPar.RightIndent
ThisPar.TabStops.ClearAll
ThisPar.TabStops.Add Position:=NewPos, _
Alignment:=wdAlignTabRight, _
Leader:=wdTabLeaderLines
Next ThisPar
End Sub
The macro will work even if the selected paragraphs have differing right margins from each other. It also takes into account your current page setup.
If you don't want the macro to remove all the tab stops already set in the selected paragraphs, remove the line that uses the ClearAll method. If you want to use dot leaders on the tab instead of underscores, then change the wdTabLeaderLines constant name to wdTabLeaderDots.
Tip #1875 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
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