How to fix full justification spacing?

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Editorial Queen

When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is sometimes
stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this in Word? I am
doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Editorial said:
When using "full" justification, the word and line spacing is
sometimes stretched out to extreme proportions. How do you fix this
in Word? I am doing newsletter layout and this drives me bats.
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Go to Tools > Options > Compatibility and check the item "Do full
justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows". That will make Word try to
pull a word back from the following line by condensing spaces first, and
expand the spaces only if that doesn't work. The results are usually much
better than Word's default justification algorithm.
 
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Klaus Linke

And make sure you are using automatic hyphenation (Tools > Language >
Hyphenation...), and maybe reduce the hyphenation area in that dialog
(especially if you are using narrow columns).

Regards,
Klaus
 
E

Editorial Queen

Thanks. I knew there was a way to "fool" Word, I just didn't find it. A
good one.
 
E

Editorial Queen

Thanks.

Klaus Linke said:
And make sure you are using automatic hyphenation (Tools > Language >
Hyphenation...), and maybe reduce the hyphenation area in that dialog
(especially if you are using narrow columns).

Regards,
Klaus
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G

Gwynne

Hi,
Like the previous post, I am having issues with the words being space
way too far apart when the text is full justified. I tried both Jay an
Klaus' resolutions and neither worked. I am using word 2003 smal
business edition. Any further suggestions on how to fix the wor
spacing so it looks normal and not stretched out
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

It is not possible to tell from your post what was previously suggested to
you and in just what way it is not working.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Robert M. Franz (RMF)

Hi Doug
It is not possible to tell from your post what was previously suggested to
you and in just what way it is not working.
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What, you're not showing messages back two years ...? :)

[me neither ...]

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...396b47eccda?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#616cf396b47eccda

Gwynne, the Compatibility option suggested by Jay works wonders IMHO.
It's a different algorithm than the standard "fill up line as long as
possible, then expand the spaces" approach. But of course it has its
limits and, AFAICT, does not take the surrinding lines into account (as,
for instance, the TeX justification algorithm seems to be doing).

As a rule of thumb, the shorter your lines are, the more problematic
justification becomes. Especially when dealing with very long words, you
need to hyphenate (manually if you can afford to).

2cents
Robert
 
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