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I am using PageMaker 7.0 for Windows. I am not terribly technologically savvy so I don't know any of the other details, so if you do respond to this, please use simple terms! Many thanks in advance. I am a graduate student doing research. My job is to prepare the third round of a survey that was administered last 10 years ago. The old survey was in PageMaker, so I used PageMaker to create my new survey. It is a long survey (80+ questions, many options on most questions). I copied and pasted a lot of the old survey questions into the new, and created some new questions. It is nearly finished and looks beautiful except for one little problem:

I have many questions with a Likert scale, which look something like this:

How much do you agree with this: Completely Sort of Not at all
question a...........................1................2................3
question b...........................1................2................3
question c...........................1................2................3

Some of the old questions have copied and pasted perfectly, with even spaces in between the numbers, automatic tabbing, and the same number of dots (I call them ellipsis, but I know that's just ..., so I'm not sure what to call the dots between the numbering) between each tab. Others do not do this automatically. Sometimes I have been able to copy and paste the ones that do function automatically and work from there. But sometimes it just won't work. In fact, some of the time, when I begin on the left side of the page and hit tab, it goes 3/4 of the way across the screen on the first tab! Other tabs do not seem evenly spaced out, such as the 1 and 2 have a large space between them and the 6 and the 7 have a much smaller space between them.

I do not know how to make it automatically create those dots or fix the tab issues. I have used the period key instead of the automatic dots, but then I have to space it out myself, and it never EVER seems to come out straight (also there's too many dots and it looks 'busy'). Even when I think it's straight up close, I zoom out or print it and it turns out I was very, very wrong, and the numbers are all over the place. Sometimes I have the same number of dots or spaces inbetween and it still doesn't come out straight! I don't know how to line these things up properly.

Does anyone know how to put in the automatic spacing? Some of my question have up to 7 options to choose from and 27 item questions, so this is a big and frustrating task for me to try to fix with my little amount of knowledge. The help desk at the University where I work provided no support and recommended I check online for help. So please, you are my last resort! I need someone to help me make this look professional, since I will be sending this survey out nationally and don't want to be embarassed by my screwy lines that look like a kindergardener lined them up! Please help! Thank you!