From the Text menu A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window., select Paragraph Styles. The Paragraph Styles dialog box A window used to supply information to Publisher. appears.
From the Select Style list box, select the paragraph style The name for a particular type of paragraph with its own set of features, for example, font, alignment, bullets and indents. you want to make changes to.
Click on Edit. The Edit Paragraph Style dialog box appears.
Select the Spacing tab.
In the Word & Letter Spacing group box, select either Standard, Custom or Monospacing.
Do one of the following:
If you choose Standard, Publisher decides on spacing for you, but you can specify how tight or loose this is to be by moving the slider A box that you can drag to adjust the effect of the control e.g. the tint slider on a colour palette..
If you choose Custom, you can type in the minimum, optimum and maximum space required between words, and the maximum space allowed between letters.
In a monospaced font This is used in Publisher to mean the style of type, for example Sans, Serif or Courier. Elsewhere this may be called a typeface, with the term font reserved for a particular weight, size and style of a typeface., all of the characters Any single letter, number, punctuation mark, or symbol., including the space character, have the same width: Courier is an example. When using monospaced fonts, you can ensure that the spaces between letters and words are not stretched for the selected paragraph style by selecting Monospacing.
If you want to allow Publisher to vary the spacing between letters as well as between words check the Allow Letter Spacing check box.
Check the Autokern check box to make sure that the letters always kern To adjust the spacing between pairs of characters to move them closer together or further apart. together properly.
Check the Hyphenation check box to allow hyphenation Splitting a word at the end of a line, to produce a more even distribution of text between lines. and set how ragged you want the right-hand side to be using the Raggedness slider.
Click on OK to return to the Paragraph Styles dialog box.
Click on Close. The changes are applied to all the text in the document The combination of text and pictures. Also called a Publisher DTP file. styled in that paragraph style.
Note:
You cannot have monospaced and justified text. If you select both, the last option you selected will be kept, but the previous option will be changed. For example, if you select Monospacing and then Justified text, the text will be justified Text that aligns evenly with both the left and right margins. This is done by adding extra space between words and characters where necessary., but monospacing will be turned off.
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