Thanks magnavra! I have a lot of these things (tabbed groups of text) and some of them definitely have footnotes. I’ve learned a lot about tables but for this application, tabs it seems, are the best way to go.

Thank you all.

Thanks for all the input!

The thing that concerns me is mixed alignments. My sample has some text that I need to be centered and another that needs to be left justified. It seems like a lot of work to make some columns left justified and others centered. With tabs I can effect everything in 1 column at once. I’m pretty new to tables- is this something easily achieved using them?

No. I am using a hard return between paragraphs. Rule Above worked but 2/6 were either missing a line or have a rule below. Checked the underline feature of para. style to be sure they were off and they were.

As I place the finishing touches I can’t get the tabs to behave the same. Some end at different places (all have been set in the para. style-no outside formatting) but they all begin properly at the right margin. The only one that is as it is supposed to be is the very first line. Argh.

When I apply a hard return the leading goes away and I can’t figure out where IND is getting it from-both styles have the same leading but I know what it is saying is wrong (says 7/11 but it looks more like 7/21).

Got it now! Thanks.

You got it! Thanks so much, Colleen.

Thanks for the speedy reply, David. I’ve almost got it but I can’t get the column guides to disappear (using the table style and a paragraph style for the interior text). They have all been deactivated in the row and column controls of the style.