Help a musician with Word 2007?

[Frank Jackson]

Hi

I'm a musician. I'd like to make 6 booklets of songs that I sing and
the key that I play them in for the guys in the band, and set them up
something like this:

Blue Christmas.....................................................A
Dream.................................................................F#m
White Christmas...................................................C
Show me the way to go home...............................C#



Don't laugh at the song selections. It's just an example of song
titles that are short, and some are long.

I probably have to type 300-400 song titles. I really don't want to
have to type in all of those dots individually, and it's a pain to
have to put in a line graphic of dots on every line.

In an older version of Word, there was a keystroke that would allow me
to put in the leading dots between the last letter of the song title,
and the first letter of the key.

Can anyone tell me how to do it in Word 2007?

I also tried to do it in Excel, but it's WAY to complicated for this
newbie.

Maybe there's a faster, easier way?

Thanks.

 

[Murray]

Hi

I'm a musician. I'd like to make 6 booklets of songs that I sing and
the key that I play them in for the guys in the band, and set them up
something like this:

Blue Christmas.....................................................A
Dream.................................................................F#m
White Christmas...................................................C
Show me the way to go home...............................C#

Don't laugh at the song selections. It's just an example of song
titles that are short, and some are long.

I probably have to type 300-400 song titles. I really don't want to
have to type in all of those dots individually, and it's a pain to
have to put in a line graphic of dots on every line.

In an older version of Word, there was a keystroke that would allow me
to put in the leading dots between the last letter of the song title,
and the first letter of the key.

Can anyone tell me how to do it in Word 2007?

I also tried to do it in Excel, but it's WAY to complicated for this
newbie.

Maybe there's a faster, easier way?

Thanks.

Frank

Hopefully not too late, but you can do this with styles. Haven't got
Word 2007 but it will be the same or very similar.

Choose Format | Styles and Formatting, then select New Style. Give the
style a name (say Songbook?) and set the font, paragraph spacing etc
how you want them to be. Make sure that the style for following
paragraph is also set to Songbook.

While still in the New Style window, choose Format | Tabs and clear
any existing tabs. Then set a single tab at the distance you want it
to be, alignment right and leader dotted. Keep clicking OK till you
get out of the new style window.

In your document, set the style of the text to be songbook (Format |
Style or use the dropdown on the formatting toolbar), type in the name
of the song, then press tab followed by the key signature. All going
well, it should pad out with dots.

From one muso to another

Murray