How to put text on a table line   

I am trying to use word to construct chord and scale charts for guitar 
students.

This involves drawing grids, in which the horizontal lines represent guitar 
strings, and the vertical lines represent the frets on the guitar.

When playing a guitar, you obviously put your finger directly on the 
strings, so to use an MS Word table, you'd have to have a way to center the 
text on the actual table grid line, not within the cell.  Does that make 
sense?  In other words, like strikethrough, but typing directly on the table 
cell lines.  

Can anyone think of a way to do this in Word?

Thanks.

date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:56:01 -0700   author:   86general

Re: How to put text on a table line   

86general wrote:
> I am trying to use word to construct chord and scale charts for guitar
> students.
>
> This involves drawing grids, in which the horizontal lines represent
> guitar strings, and the vertical lines represent the frets on the
> guitar.
>
> When playing a guitar, you obviously put your finger directly on the
> strings, so to use an MS Word table, you'd have to have a way to
> center the text on the actual table grid line, not within the cell.
> Does that make sense?  In other words, like strikethrough, but typing
> directly on the table cell lines.
>
> Can anyone think of a way to do this in Word?
>
> Thanks.

What you want to do makes sense, but Word can't do it without a lot of 
finicky positioning of floating objects.

It would be a lot less work to either get a program that's designed for this 
(ask Google about "guitar tabulature software") or to use a drawing program 
to create jpg files of all the chord charts. You could insert these into a 
Word document as pictures if you need a Word document.

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Jay Freedman
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date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:40:15 -0400   author:   Jay Freedman