Switching form left to full justification in bulletted text

J

John Doue

Hi,

I sometimes need to switch from left to full justification in a
bulletted text.

The problem is, in some case, the last line of a paragraph becomes for
instance:
______________________________________________________________
"the problem is not solved".
______________________________________________________________

I have tried to find what causes this behavior, which I suspect is
related to the bullet formatting since I have never encountered the same
problem in other cases.

To correct this, I must go to the end of the paragraph, enter two hard
returns and moving the cursor between the two paragraphs, hit Delete twice.

This is obviously cumbersome on a long document. Any ideas how to
correct this in a more astute manner?

Thanks
 
S

Stefan Blom

Seems as if you have a line break (Shift+Enter) character in each of
the affected paragraphs. If you are using the line break to add
un-bulleted text between bullets, you may not want to remove it.
Instead, you can check the "Don't expand character spaces on the line
ending Shift-Return" option in Tools | Options, Compatibility tab.

Note that you can click the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to see
nonprinting characters. For more, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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J

John Doue

Stefan said:
Seems as if you have a line break (Shift+Enter) character in each of
the affected paragraphs. If you are using the line break to add
un-bulleted text between bullets, you may not want to remove it.
Instead, you can check the "Don't expand character spaces on the line
ending Shift-Return" option in Tools | Options, Compatibility tab.

Note that you can click the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to see
nonprinting characters. For more, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.
Click to expand...
Thanks Stefan. Actually, I found this is a text wrapping break as
described in the mvp site.

If there a way I can search and replace such a break by a regular
paragraph break? It does not seem to appear in the "special" list for
search.

Correcting this situation as suggested in Compatibility did help me
solve the problem, but I am still curious.

Best regards
 
S

Stefan Blom

In the Find and Replace dialog box, ^l seems to find text-wrapping
breaks as well as line breaks.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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