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1. #CONTROL THE SPACING IN WORD FOR MAC HOW TO#
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Here’s how to use the font kerning settings in Microsoft Office, Word and PowerPoint and fix a default setting. It applied expansion or condensing of text apparently based on the word spacing before the feature was applied.

#CONTROL THE SPACING IN WORD FOR MAC MANUAL#

It was available in WordPerfect and produced very nice text without manual effort. Automatic expansion and condensing of text as well as word spacing within settable limits would be a very valuable addition to Word. Hyphenation is often but not always a helpful feature. Expansion up to 0.6 or 0.7 points can be applied without obvious “stretching” of words, and condensing up to 0.4 point looks visually OK. This is a very labor intensive undertaking when one is dealing with several hundred pages of text, but is highly desirable for literary works, especially for 6 by 9 inch books containg many long words. (Under “Font – Advanced – Spacing” menu.) Where text looks bad due to large spaces between words, judicious selection of text and manually expanding or condensing those selections can yield a much smooter-appearing text. Word does have the ability to “expand” or “condense” text by settable amounts in increments of 0.1 point. However, Word won’t do this automatically.Īgain, proper use of hyphenation can help more conveniently.

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If a series of long words in your document causes large inter-word gaps, you can select those words and condense them by 0.1 or 0.2 points to try to fix the typography. In the picture of the Font dialog in my previous post, you can set the Spacing dropdown to Condensed and enter an amount (in tenths of a point) in the corresponding By box. Word does have the ability to condense any selected text.

This rarely makes any perceptible difference except in large font sizes. The spaces between the A and the L or between the two Ls are not affected. It reduces the spacing between particular pairs of letters where the overlap doesn’t cause collisions, such as between the T and the A and between the L and the Y in the second line of the following picture: Technically, kerning is not simply condensing the spaces between letters. In most cases, it eliminates large gaps between words. Very long words are thereby compressed or expanded to fit in or fill up available space on the line. The maximum and minimum amount of compression and expansion that is applied is user settable. In that program, the kerning automatically adjusts compression/expansion of letter spacing rather than word spacing. The Corel WordPerfect program that I used in the past has several nice features that I miss in Words, among them the adjustable kerning. If a line contains several very long words, the space between them becomes large and it results in an ugly, ragged-looking text. The kerning available in Word only adjusts spaces between words. Either automatic or manual hyphenation (found on the Layout ribbon) will also help. Older versions of Word used only expanded spaces, which turned out very poor typography current versions tend to prefer compression. What Word does is compress or expand the spaces between words to create the justification. Kerning isn’t used automatically for justified text. This is meant primarily for use with large fonts (headings, large signs, and so forth) but you can set the lower limit as you wish. The option is turned off by default, and you must check the box to turn it on. Word does have a kerning ability, found on the Advanced tab of the Font dialog box: Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. To notify us and have us get back to you, simply reply to this post. You can post your feedback through this link. Our developers will collate and review suggestions and incorporate them into product planning discussions. Since the feature is not available in Word application, we highly suggest that you submit this idea to our Word UserVoice page. Thank you for raising this concern to our attention. Will it ever be provided? A Microsoft support person used the Remote Access Session to try to find it in Word, but it is not available. WordPerfect allows automatic kerning (letter space) adjustment between settable min & max limits to smooth this out, creating better-looking text. While using justified text, there are often large spaces between words.