

C:\fakepath(new9f) Hmong Vocabulary List, Eng-Hmg, Appendix, semi-colons set differently.docx
C:\fakepath(new9f) Hmong Vocabulary List, Eng-Hmg, Appendix, table after semi-colons set differently.docx
Thanks to everyone for their replies and suggestions (especially Foris V). I checked the documents with the Formatting Marks added, which showed the tabs. I redid the original document, using tabbing to set the semicolon right before where I wanted the right column to start, (instead of setting the semicolons after the end of the words in the left column and tabbing to where I wanted the right column to begin). Then, when I converted it to a table, it came out correct, with the words in the right column all the way to the left of that column. This does work, but I don't like having the semicolon right before the first word in the right column. (I'm converting this to a table so that I can reverse the 2 columns by cutting and pasting, resulting in 2 vocabulary lists, one English to Hmong, and the other Hmong to English, so I will be using the original document.) When I did this in Microsoft Word on another document a few years ago, I think I just set the semicolon at the end of the words in the left column. I’ll attach screenshots and sample files.
In response to Earnest Al - Yes, I was using semi-colons as seperator markers to indicate where to divide each line into 2 columns. I tried setting the separator as tabs, but it created a document with many columns, whereas I only wanted 2 columns.
(edited by ajlittoz - once again: the upload tool is not the same as the slide tool, though they are based on the same device)
Share a sample file. Screenshots are useless.
What happened to the semi-colons? Were they used as separators for conversion to Table, if that is the case then what happened to the existing tab stops? Are they inside the table now?
With the text layout I see I would have thought that selecting your list, then clicking Table > Convert > Text to Table and under Separate Text At selecting Tabs would be the normal way, but maybe you wanted to remove the semi-colons at the end bit not within the text?