no justify? doesn't make sense....

[ee]

ok....i thought that maybe the justify capability just wasn't present in the
trial version of OneNote.

so i buy it, and same thing. the program is missing a justify feature (not
left/right or center....the straight justify). and i read some past threads,
and that is BS saying that it doesn't need it. if you are not intending this
for any type of quality presentation, then why the sp2 update that allows for
save to PDF?

makes no sense for there not to be a justify feature, or at the least, as
one forum member stated.....the capability for it to hold the integrity of
justified text when pasting from another medium such as Word.

i got so desperate....was trying to click and drag the justify icon from
Word onto OneNote!

thinking what the heck, it might have a shot. because one is looking at
being able to do ALL this wonderful layout with OneNote.....and i DO love
that. but then in order for it to present well, the only option i seem left
with is to do this strange "back and forth tango" between OneNote and Word.

is it just me, or is that a little on the retarded side?

all this hassle, because somebody decided a justify option is not feasible
for OneNote? holy heck....my old brother word processor from 1991 had the
justify option! it's one of the few pluses that made so nice, when going to
present a paper or work.

it just doesn't make any sense.....if the programming is on the complex
side, because of the re-sizing capability built into the text windows, you
could just make it so that any resizing of the text window pops it out of
justification mode. so then after a user has it sized.....they could justify
it again.

i don't know what i'm going to do now. thought i had found the perfect
program for my needs.....

any word on an update or upcoming version that will have the justify feature?

eebrinker

 

[Rainald Taesler]

ok....i thought that maybe the justify capability just wasn't present
in the trial version of OneNote.

The "trials" MS offers for the Office apps are always 100% functional
and only have a time limit.

so i buy it, and same thing. the program is missing a justify
feature (not left/right or center....the straight justify).

There were just wring expectations on your side :-( :-(
But for sure you gained a lot by buying OneNote.

any word on an update or upcoming version that will have the justify
feature?

There have been certain formatting features added in ON2010.
But as far as justification is concerned the situation will be
unchanged.

Rainald

 

[Pat Garard]

Won't wrap text around an image either.
Noticed this when copying/pasting images with wrapped text from Word.

 

[andy531]

makes no sense for there not to be a justify feature, or at the least, as
one forum member stated.....the capability for it to hold the integrity of
justified text when pasting from another medium such as Word.

My guess is that since the frame where you paste text into is a
flexible one, that makes it difficult to add a full justification
feature, especially if each frame doesn't have it's own ruler.
Whenever you resize the frame you would also have to re-justify the
entire article. That could make it more difficult to read, too.

But, I'm curious, why do you NEED justification? Even when I design
newsletters I rarely use full justification in columns because the
uneven spacing makes it harder to read. You also tend to get more
rivers of white space going through the article, which typographers
don't like. If you need documents to print with exact margins and full
justification (not to mention wrapping text around graphics), a
program like Word or Publisher (or another word processor or layout
program) really is more appropriate.

OneNote is a note-taking program, and a scrapbook, and a web site
grabber, and a planner, and a record-keeper, and lots of other things,
but not a desktop publishing tool, IMO.



Andy

 

[Rainald Taesler]

My guess is that since the frame where you paste text into is a
flexible one, that makes it difficult to add a full justification
feature, especially if each frame doesn't have it's own ruler.
Whenever you resize the frame you would also have to re-justify the
entire article. That could make it more difficult to read, too.

Yes! Thanks for this most valid point!

But, I'm curious, why do you NEED justification?

I'm asking myself the same question.
And for other languages than English hyphenation is compulsory when
justification is used. A "justified" German text f.e. without
hyphenation just looks awful (because if the big holes)

[...]

OneNote is a note-taking program, and a scrapbook, and a web site
grabber, and a planner, and a record-keeper, and lots of other things,
but not a desktop publishing tool, IMO.

RightyRight!

Thanks
Rainald

 

[randomuser33]

I've read other responses like this program doesn't need "justify"... does any program need anything, but it'd be nice for it to have justify for me. I am not using justify for anyone else to read my notes. I want to read my notes with justified alignment. How is it "wrong thinking" on that person's part, exactly? Is it that bad for one person that is not you to be able to use the justify button because that person wants to... or because I want to? I love how "you" all feel that it is not needed because "you" have a problem with it, so no one else doesn't shouldn't have the option to have justify as an "option." Again. "Option." For that original poster." For me. Not you. Us. Thank you.