Simultaneous Left and Right Justification

[Peter Olcott]

There is probably another term for this, and if I knew what that term was I
could look up the answer to me problem. I found an MS word file on the internet
the other night that was formatted such that both its left margin, and its right
margin were aligned to perfectly straight lines. I want to know how I can make
this work on my existing MS Word files. I think that it has to do with kerning,
but, when I selected this feature it did not have this result. Thanks

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Select the text that you want to be so justified and then either click on
the toolbar button that has equal length horizontal lines or from the Format
menu, select Paragraph and then from the Alignment pulldown on the Indents
and Spacing tab, select Justified.

If you want to use this format on a regular basis, you should create a style
for it.

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[Jezebel]

Bear in mind that Word's justification algorithm is really pretty cruddy.
For anyone who cares about the aesthetics of typography, the result is not
acceptable. You'll notice that Microsoft themselves don't use it in most of
their manuals.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or press Ctrl+J.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You *may* prefer the layout with tools > options > compatibility - "Do full
justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows" checked.

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[Jezebel]

If you want chapter and verse on what a good justification algorithm has to
do, read Donald Knuth's paper 'On breaking a paragraph into lines' -- it's
the algorithm used in Tex and (I'm told) in later versions of PageMaker. It
calls for very intensive processing...

 

[Graham Mayor]

Frankly I'd rather have surgery without anaesthetic

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[anon k]

Frankly I'd rather have surgery without anaesthetic

Well, the essence of the matter is that you should try to shrink spaces
in preference to adding them. The default Word setting is to only add
spaces. If you turn on "justify like WordPerfect" it combines both.