[yally04]

Does anyone know of a way of having a line in Word be justified both left and right? This would be very useful for business letters, where my address is on the left margin and the recipient's address is on the right margin. It's a royal pain to have to tab over and do trial and error with the spacing on the right margin.

For what it's worth, I've heard that WordPerfect does this.

[f1000]

Can you post a drawing or something of what you're asking for? I'm having trouble visualizing what you want.

[yally04]

Originally posted by f1000:
Can you post a drawing or something of what you're asking for? I'm having trouble visualizing what you want.

This is what it looks like when you just tab over:



Not very pretty or professional looking having everything lined up strangely on the right.

This is what it looks like after some fiddling, but it would be nice to have Word do this automatically:



Do you see what I mean? Tabbing over, adding spaces, hoping Word doesn't wrap a word to the next line, is a huge pain when you have to do this a lot.

[Stefan]

There is only a workaround for this: create a table with two columns and hide the borders. Adjust the left column left and the right one right.

[f1000]

Do you see what I mean? Tabbing over, adding spaces, hoping Word doesn't wrap a word to the next line, is a huge pain when you have to do this a lot.

You need to use a right justification tab. Click on the tab symbol until it turns into a right tab, then drag one to the right margin. Tab to it with your keyboard and type in your text.

Tell me how you make out.

[yally04]

Stefan:
The table idea is too complicated: I'm trying to teach an elderly, computer illiterate person how to use Word and this is the kind of thing that he will never remember how to do.

f1000:
The right justified tab works beautifully, except that it throws off the tabs for the entire document. So if I want to indent a paragraph I can only really do it if I use the space bar, or set up tab stops across the entire page. This is still annoying, but better than nothing I suppose.

[f1000]

Originally posted by yally04:
f1000:
The right justified tab works beautifully, except that it throws off the tabs for the entire document. So if I want to indent a paragraph I can only really do it if I use the space bar, or set up tab stops across the entire page. This is still annoying, but better than nothing I suppose.

Nonsense. Just add right tabs to the lines that need them and not to the entire document.

Learn how to use tabs and the ruler. Using spaces is for noobs.

[Macola]

Originally posted by f1000:
Nonsense. Just add right tabs to the lines that need them and not to the entire document.

Learn how to use tabs and the ruler. Using spaces is for noobs.

And once you have it set up the way you want, create a stylesheet, so you don't have to fiddle with it every time.

[yally04]

Originally posted by f1000:
Nonsense. Just add right tabs to the lines that need them and not to the entire document.

Learn how to use tabs and the ruler. Using spaces is for noobs.

It wasn't working well for the rest of the document because if you set the tab on a blank document it of course applies to the whole thing. Didn't think of that.

[kilechki]

Originally posted by f1000:
You need to use a right justification tab. Click on the tab symbol until it turns into a right tab, then drag one to the right margin. Tab to it with your keyboard and type in your text.

Tell me how you make out.

You are my hero.
Is there a way to do that in Pages?

Edit : yes, there is, with the exact same method. Thanks!

[plasticman]

in the PC version, you can make sure the paragraph will be justified, and at the end of the line, press "shift-enter". Sorry, but I haven't bought the mac I intend to buy just yet, so I don't know if this works in word for mac.

[Shades of Gray]

Originally posted by plasticman:
in the PC version, you can make sure the paragraph will be justified, and at the end of the line, press "shift-enter". Sorry, but I haven't bought the mac I intend to buy just yet, so I don't know if this works in word for mac.

Yes, that works on the Mac side, too. However, that produces a soft return, and that new line will be part of the previous line (continuing paragraph), rather than separate paragraph. That may or may not be helpful, depending on other circumstances.

The best thing to do is define a style that rpovides what you need, then changes in the style affect only that paragraph with that tag.