Text fill in

[rrboyd]

In Word 2007 how do I make the text of a document fill in the blank area to
the right of each line (or empty space) when I make the right margin smaller.
I am trying to shorten the number of lines in a document by reformating a
block of text with wider margins. Thanks for the help

 

[Beth Melton]

The text should automatically wrap to your new margin settings. If it isn't
then it's possible the document was formatted for multiple columns at some
point and the new single column setting isn't working correctly. On the Page
Layout tab, click Columns, then click More Columns. In the dialog box click
One in the presets at the top (even if Number of Columns contains a 1
already), click OK and see if that resolves the issue.

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[Jay Freedman]

In Word 2007 how do I make the text of a document fill in the blank
area to the right of each line (or empty space) when I make the right
margin smaller. I am trying to shorten the number of lines in a
document by reformating a block of text with wider margins. Thanks
for the help

That will happen automatically unless each line ends with a paragraph mark
or a manual line break. Click the ¶ button on the Home ribbon or press
Ctrl+Shift+8 to see nonprinting marks, which will tell you what you have to
delete (see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm).

Then you can use the Replace function to replace those characters with space
characters. You need to take some care to keep the paragraph marks that
actually occur at the ends of paragraphs. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm for instructions.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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