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In article <1991May18.130823.30894@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:

 > [Letterspacing is] 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.

But MS Word does just that, it's just hardly noticeable.  Try making a
paragraph in which each line starts with the same longish word, but in
which the lines have different inter-word spacing when justified
(e. g., copy the long word fifty times and intersperse short words here
and there).  If you print this paragraph on a LaserWriter, you will
find that the identical words at the left margin are differently long!

I would like to switch this off, because sometimes words look 
e m p h a s i z e d  in running text (the effect is not very
noticeable, but I notice it).  I haven't found anything in the manual
about this.

[BTW, I'm using the German version of MS Word 4.0]


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