2 Most Aggravating Things About WORD - help!

[aabx]

Two most irritating things about Microsoft Word:
1) Using justify where the last sentence of the paragraph always look
awful; like when the last sentence has two words and are split left an
right with white space in between.
I know you can put a paragraph mark but that doesn't work for me sinc
in legal pleadings you don't want a space between paragraphs, you merel
indent the first word to define new paragraphs. I tried th
control-hyphen for a hidden spacer and this didn't work, it did not hid
most of the time but if it did, in Print View the words meld together a
one, for example "work-today" looks like "worktoday" and I want it t
look like "work today"
2) Using centering. I center my titles and no matter what, the typ
above and below center as well. Again, I cannot use a paragraph har
return because I don't want spaces between lines, I indent the firs
word of each new paragraph which is used in legal pleading. Even if I d
have spaces above and below, when I center a title sometimes lines abov
and below center, too.
UGH! These eat up my time so much!! I do not know Styles and perhap
that would help me but I confess I am looking for a 'trick'.
If styles would help, can you tell me how specifically, please! Thanks

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

First of all: Turn on "Display Hidden Characters." (Ctrl-Shift-8). Or
better, go into the Preferences area (you don't say what version of
Word you're using, so I can't tell you where to find them) and turn on
"Display Paragraph Marks."

You will then see that you seem to have been using "forced line
break" (Shift-Enter) to end your paragraphs rather than "new
paragraph" (Enter). "Forced line break" is marked with a backwards-L-
shaped arrow. "Paragraph" is marked with a backwards-P-like symbol.

If you end a paragraph with Enter, your last line should not space
over to the right.

If you adjust the "Paragraph" parameters (again, I can't tell you how
to access them without knowing which version you use) to have "Space
After = 0" and "Space Before = 0" then you will not get spaces between
your paragraphs.

"Ctrl-Hyphen" is not a "hidden spacer," whatever that means, but an
Optional Hyphen -- it overrides the built-in hyphenation routine for
that particular word if it's at the end of a line.