Hi Melanie,
Have you actually applied justified formatting to the text? (Select the text
first. Then press Ctrl+J, or go to Format Paragraph and set the Alignment
dropdown to "Justified".) If the alignment isn't already set to Justified,
the compatibility option is ignored.
For completeness, here's an explanation of what the option does: Usually,
Word does justification only by expanding the spaces between words in a
line. Although this works, it sometimes causes the spaces to become very
wide and unsightly. With the compatibility option turned on, Word first
tries squeezing the spaces slightly to see whether the first word from the
next line can be brought back to the end of the current line. Only if that
doesn't work does it expand the spaces. But all this happens only *after*
you turn on justification.
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Melanie wrote:
The setting justify like Word Perfect 6.0 does not seem to effect the
way word justifies at all. I want it to "expand" the text to fill
the entire cell or line like it does in Word Perfect. Has any one
else had success using this setting?
Melanie
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I don't believe this setting affects alignment--just cell margins.
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"janet" wrote in message
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Check the Table Properties, Cell tab, Options button. Uncheck
"Same as the whole table" Then you can format the single cell to
be justified without affecting the whole table. I hope this is the
case -- this very property was giving me fits last week.
janet
"Melanie" wrote:
I have a document with a table with 3 columns and one row. There
is 3 lines of text in the center cell. I would like all 3 lines
to be full justified in the cell, that is align exactly at both
the left and right margins. I was researching and tried a
suggestion to got to tools, compatibilty, do justify like WP 6.0.
Even when I check this option it does not change the
justification. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
.