justifying text both sides

[Dark Phoenix]

I'm typing a manuscript for someone, and he wants it camera ready. I need to
have the text justified both sides. Mostly it works fine, but the last
sentance in a paragraph, which frequently only has a few words, ends up
justified, too, stretched very oddly across the column.

How can I stop this? Do I have to have a separate text frame for that
sentance, and justify left that sentance only, with the resultant hassels
everytime I change something in a paragraph? Or am I missing something?

I have Publisher 2000.

Thank you!
Laurie

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you using shift+enter at the end of your paragraph? Don't...

 

[Dark Phoenix]

No, just regular enter, leaving a line space before the next paragraph.

I have this hidious image of having to go through this thing line by line,
putting extra spaces in the lines to manually justify the right edge. That
would send me screaming into the night...

Laurie

 

[Mary Sauer]

I cannot duplicate this except when I use the shift+enter after a paragraph. Turn on
the ¶ "special characters" and check your formatting.

Could you send your document to me...
gsauer at columbus dot rr dot com

 

[Ed Bennett]

No, just regular enter, leaving a line space before the next
paragraph.

Can you check that you are using regular justification and not "Distribute
all lines"?
The latter would cause all lines to be stretched to the width of the text
box.

 

[Mary Sauer]

It could be the "Distribute all lines." Since it isn't on the standard uncustomized
toolbar I always wrongly assume it isn't the problem... Never, never assume...

 

[Ed Bennett]

Never, never assume...

Nope, you make an ASS of U and ME!

<g>

 

[Dark Phoenix]

Can you check that you are using regular justification and not "Distribute
all lines"?
The latter would cause all lines to be stretched to the width of the text
box.

Where do I find this option? I don't see it under Tools or Options or
anywhere- tried typing 'distribute all lines' into the help and it didn't
come up with anything.
Thanks,
Laurie

 

[Dark Phoenix]

I cannot duplicate this except when I use the shift+enter after a paragraph. Turn on
the ¶ "special characters" and check your formatting.

Could you send your document to me...
gsauer at columbus dot rr dot com

I turned on special characters. One chapter shows the little paragraph
symbol at the end of the paragraphs, and the justification is working. The
other chapter (they are in separate files so far) shows a little horizontal
arrow at the end of the paragraph, and the justification is doing the spread
the letters across the page trick. I was wrong; I don't have an empty line
space between paragraphs in either chapter.

What on earth have I done different in these two, and where do I go to fix
it?

Thank you,
Laurie, feeling like a complete idiot. After all these years of doing
newsletters with Publisher, quite happily, I run into something that stumps
me totally!

 

[Ed Bennett]

Where do I find this option? I don't see it under Tools or Options or
anywhere- tried typing 'distribute all lines' into the help and it
didn't come up with anything.

In Publisher 2003 it's an option under Format > Paragraph - I'm not sure
about other versions.

 

[Ed Bennett]

What on earth have I done different in these two, and where do I go
to fix it?

It sounds like you have either put a tab mark (-->) or a line break (,_|) at
the end of the paragraph instead of a paragraph.
The line break is designed to split a line without ending a paragraph. This
means that Publisher treats the text block as one paragraph when justifying,
so the line is justified. It is inserted with Shift+Enter
If you don't want a line to justify, it has to be at the end of a paragraph,
so you need to put a full paragraph mark there. This is accomplished with a
simple single press of the Enter key.

 

[Mary Sauer]

The little arrow is a tab marker, Are you using custom tabs? If you can't backspace
the tab away, high-light that area, on the menu, format, tabs, clear. Did you look
at the alignment through the menu, format, paragraph, is the alignment "justified" or
"distributed...?"

 

[Dark Phoenix]

In Publisher 2003 it's an option under Format > Paragraph - I'm not sure
about other versions.

Hmm... nothing under Format. Can't find it so far. There are separate
options under Format for Line Spacing, Character Spacing etc. I'll keep
looking.
thanks,
Laurie

 

[Mary Sauer]

Paragraph formatting isn't a feature of Publisher 2000. Have you tried selecting all
the text, format, tabs, clear all?