[Tom Ferguson[_3_]]

Word 2007 is the same in this, as far as I know.

If you have been blessed with an abnormally large amount of patience and
perseverance, you can manually adjust every pair by adjusting the kerning.
Format Font Character Spacing Spacing. But, in my view, life is too
short to do much of that.

You could try using the "Dispersed" paragraph formatting. Keyboard shortcut
Ctrl J, i.e. Ctrl shift j. It was intended for Thai and like languages and
the result is not usually useful aside from that, in my view. However, there
it is.

Others here suggested a couple of other options. In particular, you need a
page layout program rather than a word processor for such typographic
niceties.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

"ancientseeker" wrote in message
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Thank you, Tom. This "Format Paragraph -- Justified" procedure is OK,
but
it is not "Full Justification". The latter involves very small changes in
all
the spacings between adjacent characters and it is essentially
undetectable.
Look at a good newspaper: you cannot tell at all which spacings have been
changed. Here, on the other hand, only the spacings between words have
been
adjusted and in some cases it is very apparent that some spacings are
abnormal. I am the editor for a two-column newsletter and, because of the
relative narrowness of the columns, this effect with Word 2003 is quite
evident; sometimes it is even ugly! I do agree that for a document with
the
full width of the page the result is usually all right, especially with a
fairly small font. But it is not what newspaper people call full
justification. Does Word 2007 do a better job?

Thanks all the same,
ancientseeker

"Tom Ferguson" wrote:

In word, justification is implemented as a paragraph property. Navigate
to
Format Paragraph. You can also "turn it on" viz. apply it using a
keyboard
shortcut (Ctrl j) or clicking on an icon on the formatting toolbar.

Word does hyphenation. Page Layout Hyphenate.

--

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007


"ancientseeker" wrote in
message
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"Full Justification" is a typographical standard which results in all
lines
having exactly the same length. For a definition, see for instance
Wikipedia.
I have Word 2003 and I cannot find how to produce full justification.
There
are actually two kinds: (1) without hyphenation of some of the words at
the
ends of the lines, and (2) with hyphenation. The second kind is capable
of
producing essentially perfect justification. It is used in TeX, LaTex,
and
all good newspapers. There are no ragged edges on the right side at
all!