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2 Most Aggravating Things About WORD - help!
Two most irritating things about Microsoft Word:
1) Using justify where the last sentence of the paragraph always looks awful; like when the last sentence has two words and are split left and right with white space in between. I know you can put a paragraph mark but that doesn't work for me since in legal pleadings you don't want a space between paragraphs, you merely indent the first word to define new paragraphs. I tried the control-hyphen for a hidden spacer and this didn't work, it did not hide most of the time but if it did, in Print View the words meld together as one, for example "work-today" looks like "worktoday" and I want it to look like "work today" 2) Using centering. I center my titles and no matter what, the type above and below center as well. Again, I cannot use a paragraph hard return because I don't want spaces between lines, I indent the first word of each new paragraph which is used in legal pleading. Even if I do have spaces above and below, when I center a title sometimes lines above and below center, too. UGH! These eat up my time so much!! I do not know Styles and perhaps that would help me but I confess I am looking for a 'trick'. If styles would help, can you tell me how specifically, please! Thanks! |
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2 Most Aggravating Things About WORD - help!
First of all: Turn on "Display Hidden Characters." (Ctrl-Shift-8). Or
better, go into the Preferences area (you don't say what version of Word you're using, so I can't tell you where to find them) and turn on "Display Paragraph Marks." You will then see that you seem to have been using "forced line break" (Shift-Enter) to end your paragraphs rather than "new paragraph" (Enter). "Forced line break" is marked with a backwards-L- shaped arrow. "Paragraph" is marked with a backwards-P-like symbol. If you end a paragraph with Enter, your last line should not space over to the right. If you adjust the "Paragraph" parameters (again, I can't tell you how to access them without knowing which version you use) to have "Space After = 0" and "Space Before = 0" then you will not get spaces between your paragraphs. "Ctrl-Hyphen" is not a "hidden spacer," whatever that means, but an Optional Hyphen -- it overrides the built-in hyphenation routine for that particular word if it's at the end of a line. On Jan 22, 10:00*am, aabx wrote: Two most irritating things about Microsoft Word: 1) Using justify where the last sentence of the paragraph always looks awful; like when the last sentence has two words and are split left and right with white space in between. I know you can put a paragraph mark but that doesn't work for me since in legal pleadings you don't want a space between paragraphs, you merely indent the first word to define new paragraphs. I tried the control-hyphen for a hidden spacer and this didn't work, it did not hide most of the time but if it did, in Print View the words meld together as one, for example "work-today" looks like "worktoday" and I want it to look like "work today" 2) Using centering. I center my titles and no matter what, the type above and below center as well. Again, I cannot use a paragraph hard return because I don't want spaces between lines, I indent the first word of each new paragraph which is used in legal pleading. Even if I do have spaces above and below, when I center a title sometimes lines above and below center, too. UGH! These eat up my time so much!! I do not know Styles and perhaps that would help me but I confess I am looking for a 'trick'. If styles would help, can you tell me how specifically, please! Thanks! -- aabx |
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