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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I
could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
Select the text that you want to be so justified and then either click on
the toolbar button that has equal length horizontal lines or from the Format menu, select Paragraph and then from the Alignment pulldown on the Indents and Spacing tab, select Justified. If you want to use this format on a regular basis, you should create a style for it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
Bear in mind that Word's justification algorithm is really pretty cruddy.
For anyone who cares about the aesthetics of typography, the result is not acceptable. You'll notice that Microsoft themselves don't use it in most of their manuals. "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
Or press Ctrl+J.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Select the text that you want to be so justified and then either click on the toolbar button that has equal length horizontal lines or from the Format menu, select Paragraph and then from the Alignment pulldown on the Indents and Spacing tab, select Justified. If you want to use this format on a regular basis, you should create a style for it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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You *may* prefer the layout with tools options compatibility - "Do full
justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: Bear in mind that Word's justification algorithm is really pretty cruddy. For anyone who cares about the aesthetics of typography, the result is not acceptable. You'll notice that Microsoft themselves don't use it in most of their manuals. "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
If you want chapter and verse on what a good justification algorithm has to
do, read Donald Knuth's paper 'On breaking a paragraph into lines' -- it's the algorithm used in Tex and (I'm told) in later versions of PageMaker. It calls for very intensive processing... "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You *may* prefer the layout with tools options compatibility - "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: Bear in mind that Word's justification algorithm is really pretty cruddy. For anyone who cares about the aesthetics of typography, the result is not acceptable. You'll notice that Microsoft themselves don't use it in most of their manuals. "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Frankly I'd rather have surgery without anaesthetic
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: If you want chapter and verse on what a good justification algorithm has to do, read Donald Knuth's paper 'On breaking a paragraph into lines' -- it's the algorithm used in Tex and (I'm told) in later versions of PageMaker. It calls for very intensive processing... "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You *may* prefer the layout with tools options compatibility - "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jezebel wrote: Bear in mind that Word's justification algorithm is really pretty cruddy. For anyone who cares about the aesthetics of typography, the result is not acceptable. You'll notice that Microsoft themselves don't use it in most of their manuals. "Peter Olcott" wrote in message news:asFmf.18760$QW2.5661@dukeread08... There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning, but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks |
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Simultaneous Left and Right Justification
Graham Mayor wrote:
Frankly I'd rather have surgery without anaesthetic Well, the essence of the matter is that you should try to shrink spaces in preference to adding them. The default Word setting is to only add spaces. If you turn on "justify like WordPerfect" it combines both. |