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Switching form left to full justification in bulletted text
Hi,
I sometimes need to switch from left to full justification in a bulletted text. The problem is, in some case, the last line of a paragraph becomes for instance: __________________________________________________ ____________ "the problem is not solved". __________________________________________________ ____________ I have tried to find what causes this behavior, which I suspect is related to the bullet formatting since I have never encountered the same problem in other cases. To correct this, I must go to the end of the paragraph, enter two hard returns and moving the cursor between the two paragraphs, hit Delete twice. This is obviously cumbersome on a long document. Any ideas how to correct this in a more astute manner? Thanks -- John Doue |
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Switching form left to full justification in bulletted text
Seems as if you have a line break (Shift+Enter) character in each of
the affected paragraphs. If you are using the line break to add un-bulleted text between bullets, you may not want to remove it. Instead, you can check the "Don't expand character spaces on the line ending Shift-Return" option in Tools | Options, Compatibility tab. Note that you can click the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to see nonprinting characters. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John Doue" wrote in message ... Hi, I sometimes need to switch from left to full justification in a bulletted text. The problem is, in some case, the last line of a paragraph becomes for instance: __________________________________________________ ____________ "the problem is not solved". __________________________________________________ ____________ I have tried to find what causes this behavior, which I suspect is related to the bullet formatting since I have never encountered the same problem in other cases. To correct this, I must go to the end of the paragraph, enter two hard returns and moving the cursor between the two paragraphs, hit Delete twice. This is obviously cumbersome on a long document. Any ideas how to correct this in a more astute manner? Thanks -- John Doue |
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Switching form left to full justification in bulletted text
Stefan Blom wrote:
Seems as if you have a line break (Shift+Enter) character in each of the affected paragraphs. If you are using the line break to add un-bulleted text between bullets, you may not want to remove it. Instead, you can check the "Don't expand character spaces on the line ending Shift-Return" option in Tools | Options, Compatibility tab. Note that you can click the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to see nonprinting characters. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. Thanks Stefan. Actually, I found this is a text wrapping break as described in the mvp site. If there a way I can search and replace such a break by a regular paragraph break? It does not seem to appear in the "special" list for search. Correcting this situation as suggested in Compatibility did help me solve the problem, but I am still curious. Best regards -- John Doue |
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Switching form left to full justification in bulletted text
In the Find and Replace dialog box, ^l seems to find text-wrapping
breaks as well as line breaks. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John Doue" wrote in message ... Stefan Blom wrote: Seems as if you have a line break (Shift+Enter) character in each of the affected paragraphs. If you are using the line break to add un-bulleted text between bullets, you may not want to remove it. Instead, you can check the "Don't expand character spaces on the line ending Shift-Return" option in Tools | Options, Compatibility tab. Note that you can click the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to see nonprinting characters. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. Thanks Stefan. Actually, I found this is a text wrapping break as described in the mvp site. If there a way I can search and replace such a break by a regular paragraph break? It does not seem to appear in the "special" list for search. Correcting this situation as suggested in Compatibility did help me solve the problem, but I am still curious. Best regards -- John Doue |
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