Every day I have to type contracts, bonds, and other legal papers, which is easy to do. But down here in Mexico the legal documentation has to have the blank spaces left between the last word of a paragraph to the end of the line filled with dots, hyphens, or dashes. It's easy to do manually. But once done, if you add or delete words, you have to adjust the filling character to the new line length. Is there a way in which Word can fill these spaces automatically? ~ Octavio Favela

If you can manage to format your document without using tabs, here's a solution. Press Ctrl+A to select all the text in the document. Select Tabs from the Format menu and click on the Clear All button. Create one tab just inside the right margin. For example, if the right margin is 6 inches, set it to 5.99 inches. Under Alignment, check Right. In the Leaders area, select periods, dashes, or underscores. Click on OK. Type a tab at the end of each paragraph, or use Find and Replace to replace ^p with ^t^p (^p represents a paragraph mark, and ^t represents a tab). Word will fill the line to the right margin with your leader character.