I am working on a legal pleading template. The caption information is contained in a two column table. The Joe Plaintiff vs. John Defendant text is in the left column of the table, case number etc is in the right column.

In some places it is acceptable to just have a vertical border between the columns and be done. In this county, the expected format is a right paren ")" at the end of each line in the left column.

John Doe, )
Plaintiff )
vs. ) <-- the parens have to right justify to the column width
etc. )

We would like to automatically insert the right paren when the typist hits the enter key. Of course we only need this in the table, not in the document body. Any thoughts on how to approach this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-dL

If you are creating a template, then the obvious solution is to add a userform to the template to collect the data that goes in the table column and then add the bracket to the text entered before inserting it in the appropriate cell. See http://www.gmayor.com/Userform.htm.

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Can it be a complete column of parentheses?


If so, in your template insert a narrow column between the two current ones. Fill it with parentheses.

I would seriously consider talking to the court administrator about changing this rule which was created when pleadings were done on typewriters. A border would serve the same purpose.

Out of curiousity, which jurisdiction is this?