WD: Word Ruler Supports Only Mouse Commands
Article ID: 110376
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q110376
SUMMARY
Microsoft Word version 6.0 and later do not have a keyboard activated ruler
like Word 2.0 for Windows does. (In Word 2.0, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+F10
to make the ruler active.) The ruler in Word 6.0 and later is accessible
only by using a mouse.
As the result of customer feedback, Microsoft increased the functionality
of the ruler starting with Word 6.0. To prevent too much complexity, the
additional mouse functionality required a loss of keyboard functionality.
As a result, there is no longer a ruler mode you can activate to allow
setting tabs and indents directly from the keyboard.
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