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[Michael LeFan]

Howdy -- I'm running Publisher 2002 and Windows XP. I formatted 500 words
of text into a 3 column format, fully justified (Times Roman, 10 pt). All is
okay except the last line of each paragraph. Whether it is one word or six
words, that last line expands to full column width. When it's one word
thus-- p l a n . -- it is unacceptable. What
am I missing in the formatting? Any cures?

Thanks -- Mike


Michael LeFan
The Write Place < www.lefan.com >
'Patience, My Foot!' <www.lefan.com/patience/>
Voice: 254.773-3590
Fax: 254.231-4128
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Ron Cohen]

This can happen if for some reason you have extra spaces preceding the
wording being expanded. Turn on display special characters for an easy way
to spot this. You can also work around this problem when it's the final word
in the paragraph by inserting a tab after the period.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

I must be an oddball - I ALWAYS have that option turned on. There are
programs that don't have that feature and I wish they did.

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you do a shift+enter you will get the last line expansion.

 

[Ron Cohen]

Same here. I always have display special characters turned on. I've tried
using Serif Page Plus and unless I'm the village idiot I haven't found that
option available. Most people don't utilize that function, but I find it
difficult to get along without it.
--
Ron

I must be an oddball - I ALWAYS have that option turned on. There are
programs that don't have that feature and I wish they did.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Mike Koewler]

Ron,

Select the text you want by clicking in the textbox, then Ctrl/E, then
click on the ¶ (Alt, Zero, 1, 8, 2) character on the toolbar.

Mike

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Me too! It drives me nuts to see two spaces between words instead of one. Or
worse yet - when people use spaces and/or tabs when they want to center text
and returns to center it vertically! ARGH!

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Same here. I always have display special characters turned on. I've tried
using Serif Page Plus and unless I'm the village idiot I haven't found
that option available. Most people don't utilize that function, but I find
it difficult to get along without it.
--
Ron

I must be an oddball - I ALWAYS have that option turned on. There are
programs that don't have that feature and I wish they did.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

This can happen if for some reason you have extra spaces preceding the
wording being expanded. Turn on display special characters for an easy
way to spot this. You can also work around this problem when it's the
final word in the paragraph by inserting a tab after the period.
--
Ron

Howdy -- I'm running Publisher 2002 and Windows XP. I formatted 500
words of text into a 3 column format, fully justified (Times Roman, 10
pt). All is okay except the last line of each paragraph. Whether it is
one word or six words, that last line expands to full column width.
When it's one word thus-- p l a n . --
it is unacceptable. What am I missing in the formatting? Any cures?

Thanks -- Mike


Michael LeFan
The Write Place < www.lefan.com >
'Patience, My Foot!' <www.lefan.com/patience/>
Voice: 254.773-3590
Fax: 254.231-4128
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Ron Cohen]

No wonder I couldn't find it. Now I only feel like a part time village
id-10-t. This is definitely one area where Publisher beats Page Plus. I do
like the ease of using ctrl-e however. That part is better than Publisher.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

I like the feature set of WritePlus, but I wish it were just built in to
PagePlus so I didn't have a secondary window.

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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