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Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line
Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line
I've encountered this problem off and on for many years w/ MS Word. Currently I have Word 2K on Win2K and it has struck yet again. I occasionally have a paragraph that is 'justified' mess up the final line. What happens is that even if there are only 2 words in the paragraph the 2nd word is pushed all the way to the right side. Yet the paragraphs immediately above and below it justify normally - that is all the lines have a smooth right side margin but the last line which simply is allowed to end 'wherever'. It's a random occurance and once it starts on one paragraph, no amount of fiddling, deleting, pasting etc will get rid of it - in fact the more I fiddle the more likely the anomaly will spread to more and more paragraphs! It's like one minute the paragraph is fine and then I type in a new word or something and WHAM! the bottom line is all stretched out... I have had this occur randomly on various systems, various versions of Word on various OS versions and w/ various printer drivers (which ARE up to date) - it always comes back to Word being the common denominator. I'd like to at last understand this annoyance and be able to resolve it or have a workaround whenever it decides to randomly pop up. thanks! |
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Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line
Hi Pgr
pgtr wrote: Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line I've encountered this problem off and on for many years w/ MS Word. Currently I have Word 2K on Win2K and it has struck yet again. I occasionally have a paragraph that is 'justified' mess up the final line. What happens is that even if there are only 2 words in the paragraph the 2nd word is pushed all the way to the right side. Yet the paragraphs immediately above and below it justify normally - that is all the lines have a smooth right side margin but the last line which simply is allowed to end 'wherever'. It's a random occurance and once it starts on one paragraph, no amount of fiddling, deleting, pasting etc will get rid of it - in fact the more I fiddle the more likely the anomaly will spread to more and more paragraphs! It's like one minute the paragraph is fine and then I type in a new word or something and WHAM! the bottom line is all stretched out... I have had this occur randomly on various systems, various versions of Word on various OS versions and w/ various printer drivers (which ARE up to date) - it always comes back to Word being the common denominator. I'd like to at last understand this annoyance and be able to resolve it or have a workaround whenever it decides to randomly pop up. Are you positive that what you perceive to be one "whole" paragraph is really a Word paragraph, IOW: Ending with a return and not a shift-return (line break)? Word treats justified lines ending with shift-return differently depending on one specific entry in Tools | Options | Compatibility. 2cents ..bob ...Word-MVP -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / X Against HTML / \ in e-mail & news |
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Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line
On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:02:08 +0200, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)"
wrote: Are you positive that what you perceive to be one "whole" paragraph is really a Word paragraph, IOW: Ending with a return and not a shift-return (line break)? Word treats justified lines ending with shift-return differently depending on one specific entry in Tools | Options | Compatibility. Yes, absolutely positive. Let's take a simple 5 para document w/ each paragraph being 'justified' for a smooth right margin. Just the middle paragraph (#3) might display the anomaly. Basically the last line might have as few as 2 words. The 2nd word would be way over to the far right side w/ a massive gap measured not in pixels but full inches! Delete teh paragraph and try typing anew - the instant you hit the space bar, the 2nd word typed in is all the way over to teh far far right. I've seen this (what I consider to be a bug) for many many years now in various versons of word. Ever time I encounter it I keep asking myself 'haven't they fixed that yet?' - well I finally decided to post here and see if I might get to the bottom of understanding it and how to work around it since it shows no sign of ever being fixed. Currently the only possible workaround is to simply start a completely new document from scratch. No amount of deleting or pasting seems to resolve it and it only seems to get worse. I always dread encountering this problem for this reason. |
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Paragraph Justification anomaly on LAST line
Make sure that it is just justified. If you accidentally press Ctrl+Shift+J
instead of Ctrl+J, you invoke the Distribute Paragraph command, which force-justifies the last line as well as everything else. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "pgtr" pgtr(deletethisandsubstituteatsymbol)bigfoot[ot]com wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:02:08 +0200, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Are you positive that what you perceive to be one "whole" paragraph is really a Word paragraph, IOW: Ending with a return and not a shift-return (line break)? Word treats justified lines ending with shift-return differently depending on one specific entry in Tools | Options | Compatibility. Yes, absolutely positive. Let's take a simple 5 para document w/ each paragraph being 'justified' for a smooth right margin. Just the middle paragraph (#3) might display the anomaly. Basically the last line might have as few as 2 words. The 2nd word would be way over to the far right side w/ a massive gap measured not in pixels but full inches! Delete teh paragraph and try typing anew - the instant you hit the space bar, the 2nd word typed in is all the way over to teh far far right. I've seen this (what I consider to be a bug) for many many years now in various versons of word. Ever time I encounter it I keep asking myself 'haven't they fixed that yet?' - well I finally decided to post here and see if I might get to the bottom of understanding it and how to work around it since it shows no sign of ever being fixed. Currently the only possible workaround is to simply start a completely new document from scratch. No amount of deleting or pasting seems to resolve it and it only seems to get worse. I always dread encountering this problem for this reason. |
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