Signatures Within A Table: Two Ways To Go...

 Signatures Within A Table:  Two Ways To Go...



As you know, if you have worked within a law firm you have two ways to go about putting together your signatures. Using the borders of Tables vs. using the usual signature set up which I will go over.

1.  One way is to use the borders of a table to create your signature lines.  First, take off all the borders of your table.  You can do this easily with “Control Alt U”.  If using the borders of the table, you will need to make use of a buffer column (a 1 character width column) between the two side by side signatures.  

If you don't, the two side by side separate signatures will appear as one long signature line.  Now you can selectively put back the borders that will serve as your signature lines with the use of the “Border Painter” that you will find under Table Tools Design Tab.

2.  The traditional Signature within a table does not make use of the table borders and therefore, no buffer column is necessary.  Below is the routine to put the non buffer column signature type together;

By:  Control Tab Soft Return
Name: Soft Return
Title: Hard Return

Whatever column of the table you are using, we place a Right Tab in the ruler and assign a solid line leader to the Tab to create the signature line. Name and Title go under the signature line as "Hanging Text".  Note:  In order to tab within a table cell, you must use "Control Tab".  Regular tab will just hop you from one cell to another.  

One more Note:  When tugging the Name and Title under the Signature Line, the Signature Line will often (not always) collapse.  This has been going on since MS Word 97.  Simply take your cursor back up to your Signature Line and use Control Tab to open the Signature Line back up.  No big deal. :)

3.  Finally, you must have a Hard Return after the word "Title" so that if you copy the Signature to another cell, it will not collapse. The Return after the word "Title" holds the formatting info and allows you to copy the signature anywhere in the Table once you get the signature looking good!

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