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Bottom balancing in Word? (typesetting)
Hello,
As a typesetter who works in Word, I wonder if it's possible to do bottom balancing in Word? That is to say, if one page happens to be one line shorter than the one next to it, is there a tool in Word allowing you to "stretch" the shorter page so that their bottom lines are evenly aligned?
Thank you very much in advance!
fresiegrant On the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog, set the Page>Vertical alignment to "Justified"
For a page that is one of two lines short, it will probably be OK, but not if the page is many lines short.
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fresiegrant On the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog, set the Page>Vertical alignment to "Justified"
For a page that is one of two lines short, it will probably be OK, but not if the page is many lines short.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP , that was a great solution to bottom balancing! Thanks. However, I see that seems to only add spacing between paragraphs, rather than adjusting the leading or line spacing for the whole page. When paragraph spacing is supposed to be zero (for consistent line spacing across the page), is there a way to change this behavior so it achieves the bottom balancing via shifting line spacing rather than paragraph spacing?
This is important for books (especially fiction) and many other professional publishing settings where there should be no extra spacing between paragraphs, just indents to delineate paragraphs.
I do not think that I have ever come across a book that had anything other than the same number of lines on each page, other than the last page of a chapter (and in many cases, the first page)
