A Stupid Microsoft Word Question

[bwaysinger]

A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#1

Posted: 4/25/07 at 10:33am

Ok, a question for you guys,
A coworker is trying to format a document in Word and do it without using automatic line wrapping. Is there a typewriter-style setting on Word which requires you manually type enter to break down to a new line, or is word wrapping just a permanent evil of Word?

[best12bars]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#2

Posted: 4/25/07 at 10:38am

A permanent evil?

I think word wrapping is a necessity to stay on the paper! You can force a line break anywhere you want to though, so I guess I don't understand what the problem is.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[bwaysinger]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#2

Posted: 4/25/07 at 10:41am

He's just trying to force a document to look the way it is already typed out on paper and turning off the automatic wrapping would help him. You know, as if he were suddenly typing it on a typewriter. I could do it myself but I don't want to and, frankly, I thought you could just turn it off. But I thought I'd ask anyway.

[best12bars]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#3

Posted: 4/25/07 at 10:46am

Are you talking about automatic text wrapping that splits a word in two creating a hyphenated word? That can be turned off.

Or are you talking about have the text "left justified" (where the text ends unevenly, as it would on a typewriter) as opposed to "full justified" (where the text is evenly justified on both left and right sides) which doesn't look like a typewriter?

Or are you talking about viewing the document in "Normal" mode, so it looks like it's on a piece of paper?

I'm confused.

In any case, those are your options (above).

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Gothampc]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#4

Posted: 4/25/07 at 10:48am

Is your boss Dan Rather?

As far as I know, you have to put in hard returns everywhere you want the line to break.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[slimandslam]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#5

Posted: 4/25/07 at 1:31pm

Would a scanner help?

I seem to recall that, when you use OCR (optical character recognition) software to scan a piece of paper as text, it preserves the original line breaks.

It's been a while since I've tried that, though, so I may be misremembering.

[kelzama]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#6

Posted: 4/25/07 at 2:05pm

If you're truly asking about how to manually adjust the paragraph margins, the easiest would be to make the page margins miniscule, then force the returns where you want them, either with "enter" or "shift+enter". Enter creates a hard-paragraph break. shift/enter creates a return within the same paragraph.

[IMsooHyprToday]

re: A Stupid Microsoft Word Question#7

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:12pm

Ummm i MIGHT understand what you are saying... but no i dont think it is possible as using turning off text wrapping defeats the entire point of having a computer and not a typewriter.............

HOWEVER.....

i might suggest scanning the document, and then using text boxes (with no line, and no background color) to place the text over where your co-worker needs it. Good Luck!

fishes,
Graham!