justifying text both sides

Dark Phoenix was very recently
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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.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

Dark Phoenix was very recently
heard to utter:
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.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

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...?"

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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"Mary Sauer" wrote:

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

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP

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" wrote:

Dark Phoenix was very recently
heard to utter:
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 - MVP Microsoft Publisher


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

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

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
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http://msauer.mvps.org/
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"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Dark Phoenix was very recently
heard to utter:
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 - MVP Microsoft Publisher


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

Cut and paste your text into a text editor that will strip all formatting.
The issue you are having is a bug in the Text Frame.
This happens when you import another document with formatting into a Text Frame.
There are plenty of excellent freeware text editors around that will strip all the
formatting out.
Do not paste the stripped text back into the same Text Frame. Make a new Text Frame
so there is no corruption in the Text Frame.