Word computation for spacing in text paragraph

[Guest]

In the last two lines of a paragraph, Word has wrapped one word to the next
line, creating many problems for pagination. As an example, I have a
paragraph that includes the term "those" and the last word is wrapped to the
next line. When I change "those" to "the" (deleting only "os"), the line no
longer wraps. However, in that last line, there is about 1/2 inch to the
margin, more than enough for those two letters.

In fact, I have been wrestling with this problem for a long time. Many of
my documents have what seems to be excessive spacing between words, causing
many problems with formatting and pagination..

It seems that Word's computation for spaces between words is in error
somehow. Does anyone have any experience or ideas on this? Your help will
be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jezebel]

The problem is usually line breaks where you should have a paragraph break,
or superfluous white space. Display non-printing characters and check what
you've got in there to cause the problem you're seeing. Word's line-break
algorithm is pretty cruddy, but it doesn't manifest its shortcomings in the
way you describe.




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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It is also often the case that the screen display, especially at certain
zoom settings, is incapable of displaying what will actually print, so the
appearance of available space may be deceptive.

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

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[Guest]

There are no manual line breaks or paragraphs -- it is a single paragraph.
There are no special characters -- just straight text. I see this problem in
many many other straight text paragraphs. By the way, I am using 12 pt Times
New Roman.
Thanks for your ideas.