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In article <3945@ux.acs.umn.edu>, oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes:
> In article <1991May17.145012.30882@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:
>>In article <SCHOETT.91May17200416@star.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) writes:
>>> Letterspacing means to put extra space between the letters of words
>>> when a line is justified.  I find that typographically unacceptable,
>>> b e c a u s e   t h e   w o r d s   t e n d   t o   s t i c k   o u t
>>> and would like to switch it off in MS Word 4.0.  How?
>>
>>I'd like to know how to turn this ON.  Does Word really do this?

> Er, these thing are quite simple to do, taking only a mouse click (after the
> appropriate paragraphs have been highlighted).  Of course, you'll have to
> be using the ruler to make it this easy.  Oh, you say you don't know how to
> use the ruler?  Too bad . . .
> 
> And now, since no one else has jumped up to say it:  RTFM!!!!

I was sort of hoping for advice from someone who knew what they were
talking about, not from a loudmouth cretin.  Do you know what letter-
spacing is?  I didn't think so.  It's what you get if you use the
'expand spacing' option in the character menu.  The original poster
apparently found that Word did this to him automatically when he
set a line to justified mode.  I suspect he has 'expand spacing'
somehow defined in a style, but his post suggests he doesn't.  I would
LIKE to have letterspacing be done automatically in some contexts,
especially narrow columns (newspaperlike) in which the absense of
letterspacing makes for some awfully big word-spacing.  If you know
where this is in the manual, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

What I don't appreciate is being accused of software piracy before
an audience of 30K or 40K people.  If you know what's good for you,
you won't do that anymore.  Understand?

> ******************   Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary   ********************

    ^^^^
    Why is it that people on the net who are so in love with their
    drivel that they feel the need to copyright it are always
    totally full of shit?

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
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