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How to fix full justification spacing?
When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes
stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats. |
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Editorial Queen wrote:
When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats. Go to Tools Options Compatibility and check the item "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows". That will make Word try to pull a word back from the following line by condensing spaces first, and expand the spaces only if that doesn't work. The results are usually much better than Word's default justification algorithm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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And make sure you are using automatic hyphenation (Tools Language
Hyphenation...), and maybe reduce the hyphenation area in that dialog (especially if you are using narrow columns). Regards, Klaus "Jay Freedman" wrote: Editorial Queen wrote: When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats. Go to Tools Options Compatibility and check the item "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows". That will make Word try to pull a word back from the following line by condensing spaces first, and expand the spaces only if that doesn't work. The results are usually much better than Word's default justification algorithm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Thanks. I knew there was a way to "fool" Word, I just didn't find it. A
good one. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Editorial Queen wrote: When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats. Go to Tools Options Compatibility and check the item "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows". That will make Word try to pull a word back from the following line by condensing spaces first, and expand the spaces only if that doesn't work. The results are usually much better than Word's default justification algorithm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Thanks.
"Klaus Linke" wrote: And make sure you are using automatic hyphenation (Tools Language Hyphenation...), and maybe reduce the hyphenation area in that dialog (especially if you are using narrow columns). Regards, Klaus "Jay Freedman" wrote: Editorial Queen wrote: When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats. Go to Tools Options Compatibility and check the item "Do full justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows". That will make Word try to pull a word back from the following line by condensing spaces first, and expand the spaces only if that doesn't work. The results are usually much better than Word's default justification algorithm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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How to fix full justification spacing?
Hi, Like the previous post, I am having issues with the words being spaced way too far apart when the text is full justified. I tried both Jay and Klaus' resolutions and neither worked. I am using word 2003 small business edition. Any further suggestions on how to fix the word spacing so it looks normal and not stretched out? -- Gwynne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwynne's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=6004 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=719359 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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How to fix full justification spacing?
It is not possible to tell from your post what was previously suggested to
you and in just what way it is not working. -- 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 "Gwynne" wrote in message ... Hi, Like the previous post, I am having issues with the words being spaced way too far apart when the text is full justified. I tried both Jay and Klaus' resolutions and neither worked. I am using word 2003 small business edition. Any further suggestions on how to fix the word spacing so it looks normal and not stretched out? -- Gwynne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gwynne's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=6004 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=719359 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.in |
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How to fix full justification spacing?
Hi Doug
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: It is not possible to tell from your post what was previously suggested to you and in just what way it is not working. What, you're not showing messages back two years ...? :-) [me neither ...] http://groups.google.com/group/micro...6cf396b47eccda Gwynne, the Compatibility option suggested by Jay works wonders IMHO. It's a different algorithm than the standard "fill up line as long as possible, then expand the spaces" approach. But of course it has its limits and, AFAICT, does not take the surrinding lines into account (as, for instance, the TeX justification algorithm seems to be doing). As a rule of thumb, the shorter your lines are, the more problematic justification becomes. Especially when dealing with very long words, you need to hyphenate (manually if you can afford to). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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