justification and excess spacing

[Guest]

I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column has short lines
and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between some words. Is
there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program
(Multimate, I think), there was an option called modified justification that
spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word cannot add inter-word spacing, but hyphenation will help. If the
columns are very narrow, they'll be much more readable if you leave the
right margin ragged.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character spacing
in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will address this
in future versions of Word.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Thanks for your help. I ended up condensing or expanding character
spacing in areas that were particularly bad. Hopefully Microsoft will
address this in future versions of Word.

It's already a feature: You can use "distributed" text (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of "justified" text (Ctrl+J).
But it's generally considered bad typography. It's an option because distributed text is useful with Asian scripts.

Greetings,
Klaus

 

[Guest]

Thank you. I can see why it's considered bad typography, but it's a good
option in some of the areas of my document.

 

[hennie]

There is an option you can use to reduce the spaces when justifying. G
to tools/options/compatibility and find the option "Do ful
justification like WordPerfect 6.x for Windows."

Hennie

*I'm working with columns in my document. Because each column ha
short lines
and I'm using justification, there is excess spacing between som
words. Is
there any way to minimize the spacing? Years ago in another program
(Multimate, I think), there was an option called modifie
justification that
spread the words evenly, while keeping the justification. Any hel
would be
greatly appreciated.

-
henni