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justification and excess spacing
I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column has short lines
and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between some words. Is there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program (Multimate, I think), there was an option called modified justification that spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Word cannot add inter-word spacing, but hyphenation will help. If the
columns are very narrow, they'll be much more readable if you leave the right margin ragged. -- 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. "mcourtne" wrote in message ... I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column has short lines and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between some words. Is there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program (Multimate, I think), there was an option called modified justification that spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character spacing
in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will address this in future versions of Word. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Word cannot add inter-word spacing, but hyphenation will help. If the columns are very narrow, they'll be much more readable if you leave the right margin ragged. -- 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. "mcourtne" wrote in message ... I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column has short lines and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between some words. Is there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program (Multimate, I think), there was an option called modified justification that spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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"mcourtne" wrote:
Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character spacing in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will address this in future versions of Word. It's already a featu You can use "distributed" text (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of "justified" text (Ctrl+J). But it's generally considered bad typography. It's an option because distributed text is useful with Asian scripts. Greetings, Klaus |
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Thank you. I can see why it's considered bad typography, but it's a good
option in some of the areas of my document. "Klaus Linke" wrote: "mcourtne" wrote: Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character spacing in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will address this in future versions of Word. It's already a featu You can use "distributed" text (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of "justified" text (Ctrl+J). But it's generally considered bad typography. It's an option because distributed text is useful with Asian scripts. Greetings, Klaus |
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There is an option you can use to reduce the spaces when justifying. Go to tools/options/compatibility and find the option "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows." Hennie mcourtne wrote: *I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column has short lines and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between some words. Is there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program (Multimate, I think), there was an option called modified justification that spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any help would be greatly appreciated. * -- hennie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.mcse.ms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message1324548.html |