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"Justify" doesn't seem to be working for me on Word 2003
Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify a
paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether I go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center justified is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? Thank you for your help! |
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Display nonprinting characters (using Ctrl+* or the Show/Hide ¶ button) and
see if you have a paragraph or line break at the end of every line (often the case with text pasted from emails or the Web). If so, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- 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. "crios001" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify a paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether I go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center justified is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? Thank you for your help! |
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Well, that definitely solves one problem! Thank you so much for your help!
I have a follow up question. Is there a way to justify individual characters and not just the individual words? What I am trying to achieve is the difference between this: Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And this: M a r y h a d a l i t t l e l a m b w h o s e f l e e c e w a s w h i t e a s s n o w . The latter is what I'm trying to produce. I achieved this by inserting a space between each word and then justifying it, but this seems a little tedious. I'm hoping there is an easier way to obtain the same results. Thank you again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Display nonprinting characters (using Ctrl+* or the Show/Hide ¶ button) and see if you have a paragraph or line break at the end of every line (often the case with text pasted from emails or the Web). If so, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- 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. "crios001" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify a paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether I go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center justified is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? Thank you for your help! |
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You can adjust character spacing in the font formatting dialog.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "crios001" wrote in message ... Well, that definitely solves one problem! Thank you so much for your help! I have a follow up question. Is there a way to justify individual characters and not just the individual words? What I am trying to achieve is the difference between this: Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And this: M a r y h a d a l i t t l e l a m b w h o s e f l e e c e w a s w h i t e a s s n o w . The latter is what I'm trying to produce. I achieved this by inserting a space between each word and then justifying it, but this seems a little tedious. I'm hoping there is an easier way to obtain the same results. Thank you again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Display nonprinting characters (using Ctrl+* or the Show/Hide ¶ button) and see if you have a paragraph or line break at the end of every line (often the case with text pasted from emails or the Web). If so, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- 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. "crios001" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify a paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether I go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center justified is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? Thank you for your help! |
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Format, Font, Character Spacing Tab: you'll find the Spacing setting
particularly useful for this. However, you may find that if you are fully Justifying your text, it may conflict with your Character Spacing. Word will try to stretch or shrink spacing to fit words exactly into a line length so you may need to do some experimenting to get the desired result. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "crios001" wrote in message ... : Well, that definitely solves one problem! Thank you so much for your help! : I have a follow up question. Is there a way to justify individual characters : and not just the individual words? What I am trying to achieve is the : difference between this: : : Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was : white as snow. : : And this: : : M a r y h a d a l i t t l e l a m b w h o s e f l e e c e w a s w h : i t e a s s n o w . : : The latter is what I'm trying to produce. I achieved this by inserting a : space between each word and then justifying it, but this seems a little : tedious. I'm hoping there is an easier way to obtain the same results. : Thank you again for your help. : : : "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: : : Display nonprinting characters (using Ctrl+* or the Show/Hide ¶ button) and : see if you have a paragraph or line break at the end of every line (often : the case with text pasted from emails or the Web). If so, see : http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm : : -- : 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. : : "crios001" wrote in message : ... : Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify : a : paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do : anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether : I : go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified : It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center : justified : is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? : Thank you for your help! : : |
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Try Ctrl+Shift+J (Distribute Text).
-- 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. "crios001" wrote in message ... Well, that definitely solves one problem! Thank you so much for your help! I have a follow up question. Is there a way to justify individual characters and not just the individual words? What I am trying to achieve is the difference between this: Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. And this: M a r y h a d a l i t t l e l a m b w h o s e f l e e c e w a s w h i t e a s s n o w . The latter is what I'm trying to produce. I achieved this by inserting a space between each word and then justifying it, but this seems a little tedious. I'm hoping there is an easier way to obtain the same results. Thank you again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Display nonprinting characters (using Ctrl+* or the Show/Hide ¶ button) and see if you have a paragraph or line break at the end of every line (often the case with text pasted from emails or the Web). If so, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- 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. "crios001" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, thanx for your help in advance! I am trying to fully justify a paragraph in a normal passage, nothing fancy, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all when I press the "justify" button in my toolbar or whether I go through FormatParagraphAllignmentJustified It continues to look like it's left justified.... right and center justified is working fine, but I have no clue why this isn't working! Any ideas? Thank you for your help! |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers:
Try Ctrl+Shift+J (Distribute Text) How can I read about that in Help? I tried searching "Distribute Text", and I tried searching "CTRL-SHIFT-J", and in both cases got a long loist of topics that didn't seem partiocularly rlevant. rant I really am growing to hate the new "help" in Word 2003. Everything seems to be nested in callouts, so I can't read a help topic without constantly moving my mouse to click to expand some subtopic, then back to the scroll bar, then back to click to expand, again and again. Also, fairly often there's no way (that I can find) to get back to the index without closing the entire help apparatus and starting over. /rant -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Nobody likes the current version of Help. We're told it will be improved in
Word 12. As for "Distribute Text," I think it is probably undocumented. -- 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. "Stan Brown" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in microsoft.public.word.newusers: Try Ctrl+Shift+J (Distribute Text) How can I read about that in Help? I tried searching "Distribute Text", and I tried searching "CTRL-SHIFT-J", and in both cases got a long loist of topics that didn't seem partiocularly rlevant. rant I really am growing to hate the new "help" in Word 2003. Everything seems to be nested in callouts, so I can't read a help topic without constantly moving my mouse to click to expand some subtopic, then back to the scroll bar, then back to click to expand, again and again. Also, fairly often there's no way (that I can find) to get back to the index without closing the entire help apparatus and starting over. /rant -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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