Funky text justification

[Craig Schiller]

Publisher 2007.

Every so often, when I have a paragraph set to full justification, the
first few lines will be fine, and the next one will be
spread out
like this for
no reason
and then the next line will be fine.

Sometimes I can fool with it and fix it, especially if the funky line is
at the end of a paragraph. If it's in the middle, though, I always have
to find some weird kludgy way around it.

Anyone have any notion what causes this and, more importantly, how to
fix it all the time?

Craig

 

[LVTravel]

Publisher 2007.

Every so often, when I have a paragraph set to full justification, the first
few lines will be fine, and the next one will be
spread out like
this for no reason
and then the next line will be fine.

Sometimes I can fool with it and fix it, especially if the funky line is at
the end of a paragraph. If it's in the middle, though, I always have to find
some weird kludgy way around it.

Anyone have any notion what causes this and, more importantly, how to fix it
all the time?

Craig

When this happens turn on the special characters view mode (Ctrl + Shift +
Y) on the textbox and see if a paragraph mark is at the end of the line that
is having issues. The paragraph mark looks like a backward P with a
vertical line next to it (and it shows on the menu bar right next to the
zoom level number.) If you see it then just delete it and see if that fixes
your issue. That paragraph mark is simply an enter key press.

Let us know if this fixes your problem.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Thanks for the reply. That wasn't it - there was no paragraph marking.

Craig

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you have typed a shift+enter you will get this spread. If you backspace the
spacing should be corrected.

 

[LVTravel]

If you have typed a shift+enter you will get this spread. If you backspace
the spacing should be corrected.

Yep, Mary's correct again I'll bet (don't know why I missed that one.) If
the Special Character (paragraph mark) is turned on the symbol you should
see with full justification and a Shift+Enter is a "filled" < symbol (which
is actually a truncated carriage return (Enter) symbol.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Thanks for the reply, Mary. That's not it either. It's just screwed up
in the middle of a plain ol' paragraph.

Craig

 

[Craig Schiller]

Nope. As I said to Mary, this is happening in the /middle/ of a paragraph.

Craig

 

[LVTravel]

Nope. As I said to Mary, this is happening in the /middle/ of a paragraph.

Craig

With the Special Character (as shown in my original response) turned on what
is the last character or symbol that you see at the end of the improper
line? If you can't see anything there, type a space or temporarily left
justify the paragraph to see what is there. It has to be something there to
cause this.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have a picture or other object in your publication? This will mess with
alignment sometimes. Changing the wrap to tight might help.

 

[Craig Schiller]

With the Special Character (as shown in my original response) turned
on what is the last character or symbol that you see at the end of the
improper line? If you can't see anything there, type a space or
temporarily left justify the paragraph to see what is there. It has
to be something there to cause this.

Well, I'll be darned, somehow a return got in there. Don't know how,
since I even retyped a portion of the line. Anyway, problem fixed.
Thanks for your help!

Craig

 

[Mary Sauer]

Good news, Craig... Thanks for posting, it is always good to know success.

 

[LVTravel]

Well, I'll be darned, somehow a return got in there. Don't know how, since
I even retyped a portion of the line. Anyway, problem fixed. Thanks for
your help!

Craig

Hooray! Thanks for posting back.