weird text behavior (justification problem?)

[Mark G]

I'm not a beginner with styles, formatting, etc., but this
one has me stumped. I created a style named T. Here's its
description:

Font: Times New Roman, 10pt, English (U.S.), Flush left,
Line spacing single, Space after 12 pt, Widow/orphan
control, Tabs: 4", 7" right flush.

My authors work using my template, which includes that
particular style. I've got one author, though, whose
chapters come to me with the T style looking and acting
weird. For one thing, the space between lines is greater
(looks like about 1.5, but when I check the paragraph
formatting, it says it's single). The weirdest thing,
though, is that when I put my cursor, for instance, into
the middle of a line in one of his paragraphs and type,
the text in the rest of the line moves both to the left
and the right, as if trying to justify or something. Text
justification is not turned on. Fiddling with hyphenation
settings doesn't seem to have any effect.

Does anyone have a clue? I'd very much appreciate any
help. If you need more info, just let me know.

THANKS,
Mark

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Mark,

Could this author have some kind of right-to-left option
activated?

My authors work using my template, which includes that
particular style. I've got one author, though, whose
chapters come to me with the T style looking and acting
weird. For one thing, the space between lines is greater
(looks like about 1.5, but when I check the paragraph
formatting, it says it's single). The weirdest thing,
though, is that when I put my cursor, for instance, into
the middle of a line in one of his paragraphs and type,
the text in the rest of the line moves both to the left
and the right, as if trying to justify or something. Text
justification is not turned on. Fiddling with hyphenation
settings doesn't seem to have any effect.

Does anyone have a clue?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Mark,

It may be a problem that has come up last year in another group:
http://www.google.com/groups?threadm=ONU0dJH8AHA.2052@tkmsftngp03

You could ask your Japanese author to select "No grid" on the "Document
grid" tab of the Page Setup dialog. You'll only see this tab if some
support for Asian languages is installed.

I hope the following macro may fix the line spacing:

ActiveDocument.PageSetup.LayoutMode = wdLayoutModeDefault

(Open the VBA editor -- Alt+F11 --, go to the immediate window --
Ctrl+G --, paste or type the line, and hit the Return key)

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Mark G]

Hello Klaus:

That's very interesting. I confirmed with my author today
that yes, he is on a computer with the Japanese language
pack installed. He sent me two later chapters that were
produced on a machine without that language pack, and they
look just right.

I read the thread from the other list you sent, and it
does indeed appear to be the same problem. I will
communicate the grid solution to my author, if he decides
to go back to working on the original machine.

And your little macro worked wonderfully on the line
spacing. Thank you very much!

regards,

Mark Garvey