word at end of a line is cut in half

[Maureenem]

When typing a sentence the last word is cut in half and the other half
wrapped to the next line. The reveal codes don't show anything unusual.

 

[Terry Farrell]

That seems very weird. My guess is that the printer driver may be corrupt.
Try deleting and reinstalling the printer driver making sure that you have
the latest driver for the manufacturer's support site first.

 

[Maureenem]

Thank you Terry. It didn't work! I appreciate your input.
This was on a co-workers home computer...kids homework..

 

[Grady Fuller]

--
Grady


I have written hundreds of paragraphs using full justification. Sometimes
Word will fully justify the last sentence although it may only contain two
words. The first word is at the start of the last sentence and the second
and last word appears fully to the right. Anyone know how to avoid this
happening or how to fix my document where this anomaly appears?

 

[Jay Freedman]

If you're using what Word calls "full justification" (also known as the
DistributePara command, whose default shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+J), that's
the way that works. However, what you want is only "justification" (also
known as the JustifyPara command, whoes shortcut key is Ctrl+J).

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way in the Replace dialog to specify a
distributed paragraph format to be able to search for it and replace it with
justification. The Ctrl+J keystroke works in the Find What box, but
Ctrl+Shift+J doesn't do anything there.

If you have only a few paragraphs like that, you can simply click in each
paragraph in turn and press Ctrl+J. If there are lots of distributed
paragraphs, use this macro:

Sub NotFullJustify()
Dim myPara As Paragraph
For Each myPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
If myPara.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphDistribute Then
myPara.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphJustify
End If
Next
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if necessary.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

This can also be a display driver issue, as well, as it seems like Word
expects the onscreen display to be somewhere where it isn't.

And, of course, even before installing new drivers, the first thing I try is
rebooting. If that doesn't fix it, I try starting Word in Safe Mode (or
using the /a switch). If those fail to isolate the cause (registry
corruption, template corruption, a misbehaving add-in, or a user setting),
then I expand my search and try different drivers.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Are you using one of the Windows or Office supplied fonts or another
font of known good quality? It is possible that the font file is or is
mis-coded as a "symbol" font. Even although some of these font files
contain a complete set of alpha-numerics in the standard code positions,
such fonts are not intended for text use, Word and some other
applications will allow 'carriage return/line feed' between any two
characters rather than preventing CR/LF within words.

It's a comparatively rare problem but not unknown.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although this can result from a damaged font or printer driver, the most
common cause (especially if the problem is seen in a single document) is
document corruption; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.