Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!NewsServ!!schoett From: schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: How to switch off letterspacing? Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 17:40:20 GMT References: <1991May17.145012.30882@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <3945@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991May18.130823.30894@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu's message of 18 May 91 18: 08:23 GMT 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] Oliver Schoett Institut f. Informatik, Technische Univ. M"unchen Postfach 20 24 20, 8000 M"unchen 2, Germany schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de phone +49 89 2105-2390 fax -8207