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Word 2002 Formatting Issue

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by morrisjam

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In Word 2002 when trying to format a paragraph as justified, it looks okay on screen, but when printed, shows odd spaces in between some characters. This only happens when justified. I checked with Microsoft and their solution is to change the settings to "do justification like Office 97". I do this and it works most of the time - but not all of the time. I still get these spaces. Does anyone know how to fix this?!

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by chalejudy

There really is not a great solution to this. the problem is that you are using a full justification so it is trying to fill out to the margins. try to bring in you margin for that paragraph and see what that does (miniscule of course) the other thing you can look at is the kerning that is going on and what you can set that to. kerning is the space between the letters. let me know if any of this helps.
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by morrisjam

Thanks. But this does not help. And the full justification worked in previous versions of Word it just doesn't in XP. So, there must be some kind of setting in XP that is causing this behaviour.

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