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How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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Don't know of any means to increase the space between words. Adjust the space between the letters of a word is possible though. If you are having problems with justify align which produces more space between words, I would suggest to hypenate the words which will reduce the space being added. Luc Sanders (MVP - Powerpoint) "sf" schreef in bericht news How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of
the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text
though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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Another approach would be to search for spaces and replace them with
expanded spaces. To do this, type a space into the "Find what" box and a space into the "Replace with" box. Expand the dialog (More) and, with the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, select Format | Font. On the Character Spacing tab, choose Spacing: Expanded by whatever amount you have determined (by previous trial and error) to be the desirable amount, then OK. Replace All. This will be a very slow replace operation, I suspect. I'm sure someone could provide a macro that would do it more quickly. One thing that might make it somewhat faster would be to use ^w (White Space) in the "Find what" box and ^& (Find What Text) in the "Replace with" box. -- 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. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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With a row of text in 12 font and changing the font of the spaces to 18 the
line spacing stayed at Single. It would change the line spacing if any of the characters themselves were made larger. Just change the font size of the spaces between words. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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How about using En Spaces that can be inserted via the InsertSymbol dialog
and selecting the Special Characters tab. If you insert one, and then select it and use Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard, then use EditReplace and put an ordinary space (spacebar) into the Find what control and then move to the Replace with control and press Ctrl+V, the En Space will be pasted into that control and when you use Replace All, all of the spaces will be replaced with En Spaces. -- 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 "sf" wrote in message news How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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Have you actually tried this? Single-spaced 12-point text uses less space
that single-spaced 18-point text. Spaces count as text when Word is measuring line height, is my guess. (I haven't tried it either.) -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message news With a row of text in 12 font and changing the font of the spaces to 18 the line spacing stayed at Single. It would change the line spacing if any of the characters themselves were made larger. Just change the font size of the spaces between words. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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It takes about two second to test this and confirm that changing the point
size of a space does not change the line spacing. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Have you actually tried this? Single-spaced 12-point text uses less space that single-spaced 18-point text. Spaces count as text when Word is measuring line height, is my guess. (I haven't tried it either.) -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message news With a row of text in 12 font and changing the font of the spaces to 18 the line spacing stayed at Single. It would change the line spacing if any of the characters themselves were made larger. Just change the font size of the spaces between words. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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I would probably advise against this. Word seems to covertly use MS Mincho
for the en spaces, and they tend to be unstable. I use en and em spaces a lot, but I would strongly resist having a document filled with them. -- 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. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... How about using En Spaces that can be inserted via the InsertSymbol dialog and selecting the Special Characters tab. If you insert one, and then select it and use Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard, then use EditReplace and put an ordinary space (spacebar) into the Find what control and then move to the Replace with control and press Ctrl+V, the En Space will be pasted into that control and when you use Replace All, all of the spaces will be replaced with En Spaces. -- 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 "sf" wrote in message news How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:13:05 +0100, Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
How about using En Spaces that can be inserted via the InsertSymbol dialog and selecting the Special Characters tab. Unfortunately they seem larger than what I was hoping for. En space looks like it equals 3 traditional spaces and em space equals 5. Is there an advantage for using an em or en space over 3 or 5 traditional ones? If you insert one, and then select it and use Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard, then use EditReplace and put an ordinary space (spacebar) into the Find what control and then move to the Replace with control and press Ctrl+V, the En Space will be pasted into that control and when you use Replace All, all of the spaces will be replaced with En Spaces. I already use find/replace to change a single space into two, so I'm onboard with that. What I want to create is more like a 1.5 space because I want to emphasize, but not exaggerate, the spacing between words. TIA |
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Actually an en space is the width of a capital N and usually about two
normal spaces. An em space (width of a capital M) is usually about three. -- 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. "sf" wrote in message ... On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:13:05 +0100, Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: How about using En Spaces that can be inserted via the InsertSymbol dialog and selecting the Special Characters tab. Unfortunately they seem larger than what I was hoping for. En space looks like it equals 3 traditional spaces and em space equals 5. Is there an advantage for using an em or en space over 3 or 5 traditional ones? If you insert one, and then select it and use Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard, then use EditReplace and put an ordinary space (spacebar) into the Find what control and then move to the Replace with control and press Ctrl+V, the En Space will be pasted into that control and when you use Replace All, all of the spaces will be replaced with En Spaces. I already use find/replace to change a single space into two, so I'm onboard with that. What I want to create is more like a 1.5 space because I want to emphasize, but not exaggerate, the spacing between words. TIA |
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I didn't have Word open. Thanks for letting me know.
-- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... It takes about two second to test this and confirm that changing the point size of a space does not change the line spacing. -- 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. "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Have you actually tried this? Single-spaced 12-point text uses less space that single-spaced 18-point text. Spaces count as text when Word is measuring line height, is my guess. (I haven't tried it either.) -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message news With a row of text in 12 font and changing the font of the spaces to 18 the line spacing stayed at Single. It would change the line spacing if any of the characters themselves were made larger. Just change the font size of the spaces between words. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote: If you do that, it will change the line spacing for that line of text though. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "ChelseaWarren" wrote in message ... You could highlight the space between the words and change the font size of the space. I don't know if you mean to change the space between many words or just one. If you intend this for many words, change the font for the first space (eg 16 points), then immediately select the next space and hit the Repeat key (F4). It's probably not very efficent but it works. "sf" wrote: How do I increase the space between words but keep it less than 2 spaces? TIA |
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:15:11 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Actually an en space is the width of a capital N and usually about two normal spaces. An em space (width of a capital M) is usually about three. Well, now I know better. Before I posted, I turned on formatting and used lower case n as the test letter - hence the 3 & 5 numbers. Again, is there an advantage to using an en or em space over regular spaces? So, there is no way to make a space of 1.5? TIA |
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Read my previous suggestion for expanding the spaces. If you wanted to
expand them to 1.5 you could also use Format | Font | Character Spacing: Scale 150%. -- 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. "sf" wrote in message ... On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:15:11 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Actually an en space is the width of a capital N and usually about two normal spaces. An em space (width of a capital M) is usually about three. Well, now I know better. Before I posted, I turned on formatting and used lower case n as the test letter - hence the 3 & 5 numbers. Again, is there an advantage to using an en or em space over regular spaces? So, there is no way to make a space of 1.5? TIA |
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:15:35 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Read my previous suggestion for expanding the spaces. If you wanted to expand them to 1.5 you could also use Format | Font | Character Spacing: Scale 150%. That's right, thanks for the pointer! The macro part lost me. |
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