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why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be
applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks |
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Kerning is like all other font and paragraph attributes: When you set the
attributes and begin to type, they remain in effect until you turn them off. You'll see the same behavior with bold, italic, double-spacing, etc. If you know you're going to want the kerning to be turned off in the next paragraph, you could first press Enter to create the paragraph mark that separates them. Then go back, select the text, and apply kerning. Finally, move the cursor to the next (but already existing) paragraph, and it won't be kerned. A better method is to create a character style that's defined as Default Paragraph Font + Kern at 8 pt (or whatever), and assign a keyboard shortcut or toolbar button to that style. When you want to apply kerning, select the text and apply the character style. At the end of the kerned text, press Alt+spacebar to return to the underlying paragraph style, and then continue typing. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Vicky wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks |
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Jay, Thank you. You have given me some great suggestions. A couple of
questions. 1. Alt+spacebar opens the Restore, minimize, close shortcut menu. Is there another keyboard shortcut I should be using. 2. Once I have created my character style, how do I assign it to a toolbar or keyboard shortcut? "Vicky" wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks |
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Vicky wrote:
Jay, Thank you. You have given me some great suggestions. A couple of questions. 1. Alt+spacebar opens the Restore, minimize, close shortcut menu. Is there another keyboard shortcut I should be using. Oops. :-) Sorry, that should be Ctrl+spacebar. 2. Once I have created my character style, how do I assign it to a toolbar or keyboard shortcut? While you're still creating the style, in the New Style dialog you can click the Format button at the bottom left and select "Shortcut key" from the list. Or, after the style already exists, you can select the style and click Modify, and then use the Format button in the same way. Alternatively, you can open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. Select "Styles" in the Category list, then select your style in the Commands list. In either case, you can then put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and type the shortcut you want; then click the Assign button. This is described in detail (for a macro rather than a style, but the idea is the same) at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm. "Vicky" wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thank you again. One more question does Word have a tracking feature for
typesetting in addition to a kerning feature? I dont see it in the documentation. Thanks a lot! "Jay Freedman" wrote: Vicky wrote: Jay, Thank you. You have given me some great suggestions. A couple of questions. 1. Alt+spacebar opens the Restore, minimize, close shortcut menu. Is there another keyboard shortcut I should be using. Oops. :-) Sorry, that should be Ctrl+spacebar. 2. Once I have created my character style, how do I assign it to a toolbar or keyboard shortcut? While you're still creating the style, in the New Style dialog you can click the Format button at the bottom left and select "Shortcut key" from the list. Or, after the style already exists, you can select the style and click Modify, and then use the Format button in the same way. Alternatively, you can open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. Select "Styles" in the Category list, then select your style in the Commands list. In either case, you can then put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and type the shortcut you want; then click the Assign button. This is described in detail (for a macro rather than a style, but the idea is the same) at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm. "Vicky" wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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In Word, tracking is referred to as "spacing" in the Character Spacing
tab of the Format Font dialog. You can apply tracking to any selected text, as little as one character and as much as the whole document. You get more control of tracking than of kerning. The tracking can be specified in any increment of 0.1 pt. Kerning is determined by the character pairs table in the font itself (if there is one), and you can only set the size threshold above which kerning is used, or turn it off completely. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:54:02 -0800, Vicky wrote: Thank you again. One more question does Word have a tracking feature for typesetting in addition to a kerning feature? I dont see it in the documentation. Thanks a lot! "Jay Freedman" wrote: Vicky wrote: Jay, Thank you. You have given me some great suggestions. A couple of questions. 1. Alt+spacebar opens the Restore, minimize, close shortcut menu. Is there another keyboard shortcut I should be using. Oops. :-) Sorry, that should be Ctrl+spacebar. 2. Once I have created my character style, how do I assign it to a toolbar or keyboard shortcut? While you're still creating the style, in the New Style dialog you can click the Format button at the bottom left and select "Shortcut key" from the list. Or, after the style already exists, you can select the style and click Modify, and then use the Format button in the same way. Alternatively, you can open the Tools Customize dialog and click the Keyboard button. Select "Styles" in the Category list, then select your style in the Commands list. In either case, you can then put the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box and type the shortcut you want; then click the Assign button. This is described in detail (for a macro rather than a style, but the idea is the same) at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm. "Vicky" wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. I thought it applied only to selected text. Thanks -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Hi Vicky
Vicky wrote: why when I apply kerning to text that I selected does it continue to be applied to text that I type on the next line (new paragraph). I have to go in and turn it off. FWIW, I don't see any good reason to _not_ kern (at least for all text above a given size, say, 5 pt). It increases legibility, and there's no excuse not to do that (as long as you don't use PowerPoint .-)). Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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