Justify text

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RuiBorges Author

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Justify text

Hello

I´m a regular user of Iwork 08.

In Pages, in a common text, how do i justify my text like in MS Word. I will try to write an example.

MS Word - Justified text

sldajskdjasdkasjdaskj

sldajskd.

Pages - Justified text

sldajskdjasdkasjdaskj

s l d a j s k d j a

sldajs.

How do i prevent that Pages increases the space between characters? To solve, i must decrease the space between characteres wich, it´s a lot of work in a big document!

Thanks

MacBook Pro 13´, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Aug 2, 2011 9:00 AM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 2, 2011 9:26 AM in response to RuiBorges

I'm puzzled.

I'm unable to reproduce your example.

Here I get :

Look carefully the tab stops settings.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 2 août 2011 18:24:27

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RuiBorges Author

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Aug 2, 2011 9:34 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Thanks.

Can you see the diference between the text? In the first "indent" Pages increseases the charaters space to justify. In MS Word this also appened but, in the end of the line you press Enter and the last line gets the left aligment.

Thanks for your help

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Answer 3

KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 2, 2011 1:02 PM in response to RuiBorges

Pages doesn't offer a powerful algorithm for full justify.

To get a better result, activate hyphenation as I did :

CAUTION : My system is set to French so it applied the hyphenation according to French rules.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 2 août 2011 22:02:25

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RuiBorges Author

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Aug 3, 2011 2:04 AM in response to RuiBorges

Ok! Not the optimal solution but, it´s the possible one.

It solves the problem

Thanks for your help!

Best regards

Rui

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Answer 5

KOENIG Yvan

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Aug 3, 2011 2:28 AM in response to RuiBorges

Pages doesn't treat the justification by steps of one point, it insert extraneous spaces. I didn't check if it's fair enough to use the character THIN SPACE.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 3 août 2011 11:27:53

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