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How to back space only half a space

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by mbertel 2 views

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Is there a way in microsoft word that you can back space only a half a space. I have tried holding either the ctrl and alt as well as the shift button down while pressing the back space button and it backspaces one full space back. Thank you for the help.

Markus R Bertel

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by dklippert

What are you trying to do? If you're trying to move the letters closer to each other, go to Format>Font . On the Character Spacing tab, you can decide to Expand or Condense to distance between selected letters by a certain number of points.

by j.wallace

Hi Markus,

It seems to me that you want a half-space between two characters, yes? Another way to get a half-space is to type a regular space, select it, and reduce the font size by ... oh, about 50%.

If this is something you're going to do a lot, you could record a new macro. First, decide if you want to save it in the current document or the Normal.dot template. Then, I'd assign it to the keyboard. (I used Alt-Z in my test.)

The actions I did were: change the font size to half of normal, type a space, change the font size back to normal, stop recording.

Condense/expand would probably also work in a macro.

- Rick -

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