Employing Bullets from the Computer Keyboard
David wonders if there is a way of obtaining a half-space in front of colons, semi-colons, question marks, and exclamation marks to improve readability in computer fonts that appear in his files. He finds that the punctuation appears overly close to the characters that precede those symbols.
There is no way to do this automatically; Word is not (and was never meant to be) a desktop publishing program. That being said, there are a couple of ways you can add the desired spacing. One easy way would be to simply fit a regular space in front of the punctuation after which adjust the size of the space. For example, in case your normal typeface is 12-point, you can choose the space that is extra after which adjust its point size to 6-point. You could also simply make the space a superscript character, which likewise reduces the point size used for the character.
There's an issue with this particular approach, nonetheless. The added space will affect how Word handles line breaks. If the punctuation appears close to the end of a line, it's possible for it to wrap to another line rather than remaining with whatever it follows (as it would if the space was not added). To avoid this you could try using a non-breaking space instead of the regular space.
Many people enjoy this approach since you don't need to mess with changing the font size of anything. Only make use of the Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog box to fit the character. The width of this special space is (as its name suggests) one quarter of the width of the letter "m" in whatever typeface you're employing. If that is still not too narrow of a space, then the approach described will be your best bet.
You need to comprehend that the narrow space symbol entered in this fashion is managed much like a regular space in regards to line breaking. There is no non-breaking version of this narrow space, so you are left to try what may appear to be a complex approach: place a "no-width non break" character on either side of the narrow space.
If you are aware that the width that you want to add is equal to the width of an existent character (including an "i", an "l", or a horizontal bar), then you can just add that character before the punctuation, select the character, and then format it as white text.
1. Establish a wildcard search that looks for "([:;?!])" (without the quote marks) and replaces it with "$$1? (again without the quote marks). This places two dollar signs ($$) in front of each of the target punctuation marks.
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There is no way to do this automatically; Word is not (and was never meant to be) a desktop publishing program. That being said, there are a couple of ways you can add the desired spacing. One easy way would be to simply fit a regular space in front of the punctuation after which adjust the size of the space. For example, in case your normal typeface is 12-point, you can choose the space that is extra after which adjust its point size to 6-point. You could also simply make the space a superscript character, which likewise reduces the point size used for the character.
There's an issue with this particular approach, nonetheless. The added space will affect how Word handles line breaks. If the punctuation appears close to the end of a line, it's possible for it to wrap to another line rather than remaining with whatever it follows (as it would if the space was not added). To avoid this you could try using a non-breaking space instead of the regular space.
Many people enjoy this approach since you don't need to mess with changing the font size of anything. Only make use of the Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog box to fit the character. The width of this special space is (as its name suggests) one quarter of the width of the letter "m" in whatever typeface you're employing. If that is still not too narrow of a space, then the approach described will be your best bet.
You need to comprehend that the narrow space symbol entered in this fashion is managed much like a regular space in regards to line breaking. There is no non-breaking version of this narrow space, so you are left to try what may appear to be a complex approach: place a "no-width non break" character on either side of the narrow space.
If you are aware that the width that you want to add is equal to the width of an existent character (including an "i", an "l", or a horizontal bar), then you can just add that character before the punctuation, select the character, and then format it as white text.
1. Establish a wildcard search that looks for "([:;?!])" (without the quote marks) and replaces it with "$$1? (again without the quote marks). This places two dollar signs ($$) in front of each of the target punctuation marks.
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