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Lynne - 09 Jul 2004 20:50 GMT

Hello:

I am working with Word 2002 and my O/S is Windows XP. I
have a document with one paragraph and I would like to
change the margin for one of the line's. When I make the
change for the one line all of the lines change. Is
there any way I can change a right margin for just "one"
line of the text in a paragraph?

Lynne

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Chad DeMeyer - 09 Jul 2004 21:06 GMT

Lynne,

Unfortunately, the answer is no. Right indent is a setting which applies to
a paragraph as a whole. Word doesn't really have any settings which apply
to a single line only, and this makes sense because adding text to the
paragraph can totally change the content of a line, so there's nothing
discrete to apply a setting to. If you'll post a reply specifying why you
want one of the lines to have a different right indent than the others,
perhaps someone can suggest an alternate means of achieving your ultimate
purpose.

cjd

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Lynne - 09 Jul 2004 21:51 GMT

Sometimes I have long hyperlinks or a date that needs to
stay on one line. When a hyperlink moves to the next
line because of the margin, I am left with a large empty
space. And when typing a date such as "July 9, 2004", all
of it should appear on one line as well.
Thanks for the reply

Lynne

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 09 Jul 2004 22:00 GMT

You can keep text (such as dates) together using nonbreaking spaces
(Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar). For hyperlinks there's really not much you can do
except to break the link (*before* a punctuation mark such as a period,
slash, or tilde). You can insert a no-width optional break rather than a
space for this purpose; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NoWidthSpace.htm

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Robert M. Franz - 10 Jul 2004 19:46 GMT

Hi Lynne

> Sometimes I have long hyperlinks or a date that needs to
> stay on one line. When a hyperlink moves to the next
> line because of the margin, I am left with a large empty
> space.

There's no easy solution to this one. A few possibilities:

- Don't use justified text (and if you must, then only in conjunction
with Tools | Options | Compatibility: "Justify like WordPerfect 6.x").

- Don't mention the hyperlink "inline", but for instance in a footnote.

- Manually paginate and hyphenate your text carefully as to avoid large
empty inter-word spaces (Word has no concept of this and hence the
automatic hyphenation is useless here).

2cents
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Charles Kenyon - 09 Jul 2004 22:23 GMT

No, but you can have a first line indent that is positive or negative. You
can also use a manual line break (Shift-Enter) to end one line early.

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