"Justifying" centered lines, automatically adjusting length

[J44xm]

Is there a way in Word (any version, but especially 2000) to "justify"
centering? In other words, if you have 2 lines of centered text, can you
instruct word to break them where needed so that the 2 lines will be of
equal length? (Ideally, this setting could be entered as part of a
paragraph style.)

For example, instead of this:

Scientists Discover the Remains of Jimmy Hoffa Inside
a Dinosaur

you'd automatically get this:

Scientists Discover the Remains
of Jimmy Hoffa Inside a Dinosaur

Thanks much.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi J44xm

I believe that the only way to do it is as you did it in your email.

I suppose that assuming that you are starting with a single paragraph, you
could write a macro to determine the the number of characters in the
paragraph and then look for an appropriate space between two of the words
either before or after the mid character position and then replace that
space with a carriage return.

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benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Charles Kenyon]

No automatic way that I know about. I'm not sure I would trust Word's
judgment on this, anyway. I tend to break my titles into units of meaning
rather than just shooting for equal length. My breaks on your title would be
either

Scientists Discover the Remains of Jimmy Hoffa
Inside a Dinosaur

or

Scientists Discover
the Remains of Jimmy Hoffa Inside a Dinosaur

or even

Scientists Discover
the Remains of Jimmy Hoffa
Inside a Dinosaur

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