You could tell your attorneys that justified text is harder to read even
though it may look nicer. Of course, they may want it to be harder to read!
For text on a particular line, you can change the inter-character spacing;
that should reduce the inter-word spacing. This is a messy thing to do and
will make future editing much harder.

If they want their documents prepared in Word Perfect, they should have them
prepared in Word Perfect.

For what it's worth, Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one
another. Each program's methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you
try to use one of these programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing
on a string! You can easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. If you
are unwilling to take the time to learn to use Word's methods, you should
stick to using Word Pad. You'll have a lot less grief, although you'll miss
out on a lot of raw power.

See <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/TipsAndGotchas.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WordPerfectConverters.htm>
<URL:
http://businesssoft.about.com/compute/businesssoft/library/blconvert.htm>
for information on Word for Word Perfect users.

For more:
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Numbering/WordsNumberingExplained.htm>
<URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm>

In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a
special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like
pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this.
Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys()
   Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True
End Sub

Learn about Styles - really learn! I resisted for years and now regret every
day of those years because although that string was still very hard to push,
it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important projects tied
to it!

Hi ll

There's a neat switch in Tools | Options | Compatibility: "Justify Text
like WordPerfect ...", something like that.

Don't we all :-)

Greetinx
.bob
..Word-MVP