136 Macintosh
User's
Handbook
INSERTING AND REMOVING RULERS
MacWrite allows the user the option
of
inserting rulers
and
thus altering format
at
any
point in the text. To illustrate
this, let's create the same table
we
used when discussing tabs,
only this time
we
will use rulers.
Place the edit
bar
behind the word "describes"
at
the
paragraph's end
and
press the mouse button. The insertion
point now appears between the invisible return character and
the ending period. Next, select Insert Ruler from the Format
menu. What appears
is
a copy
of
the ruler. When inserting
any
number
of
rulers, each ruler always appears
as
a copy
of
the
one immediately above it. In order to localize the effect
of
the
ruler changes,
we
will insert another ruler after the table. Scroll
the second ruler
to
the top
of
the window. Place the insertion
point
at
the end
of
the text as described earlier,
and
select Insert
Ruler again from the Format menu. Scroll to the top
of
the text
and
reset double spacing
as
per the assignment. In a like
manner, scroll to the third ruler and set double spacing there as
well.
You
have now isolated the table format from the rest
of
the
text. Position the edit
bar
before
"Hard"
and
press the mouse
button. Type Backspace to remove the tab character. Repeat
for the second line. Remove the first tab
marker
from the
table's ruler
and
position the indentation marker
at
3 inches.
The table now appears as before. The advantage to this format-
ting method is that it
is
not necessary to hit the Tab key before
beginning each entry.
To
illustrate, place the insertion point
after
"$5.99" and type:
(Return) Deluxe package (Tab)
$31.50
The result should resemble figure 5.11.
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