Microsoft word condensed text

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I am aware of how to smush text together. That was not actually my question but thanks again. Q: I received a document from a coworker wherein all the text was either condensed or expanded. I cleared all formatting. The text remained condensed or expanded. I got around the issue by cutting and pasting the text back in as unformatted text.

Thank you. Hi Allen! Any ideas on how to have this command handy?? I deal with this ALL the time, but need to access this easier, if possible Thanks a lot! Hi I would like to know when I use the bergamot font with all those designs and I have one at the top and one at the bottom and then I want to print let's say Happy Birthday in the middle. How do I get the two bergamot fonts at the top and bottom closer together so I don't have so much space between the print in the middle and the begarmot fonts?

Please can you guide me on how to put these closer together? Let's say I want to do a wedding invitation with bride and grooms names between the bergamot fonts, how do I print the names so the bergamot font at the top and bottom are closer to the names of the bride and groom?

Thanks and will be waiting for you reply. This is really driving me nuts. I have been trying but no success. How do I smush words on Mac Word? We don't have a box come up when going into fonts - just a list of all the fonts. Please help. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!! Any tips to smush text vertically? This was a very good tip, I didn't catch the typo, but I went to format out of habit.

This is one of those tips that will be worth it's weight in gold when the need arises. Great work Allen. That's a typo, Bill. Step 2 should say "Choose the Font option from the Format menu. Adjustment will be in 2nd tab.

I honestly never thought of headlines. When I want to condense text, it's usually to fit a line or paragraph of text into a smaller space. After reading your response, I tested condensing by 1 point for all of Word's font-size presets from 10 to 72 points. At 14 points, condensing text by a full point begins to be reasonable, albeit a bit tight for my taste.

It's better at 18 points. At 48 points, condensing by 2 points is reasonable, and at 72 points, 3 points works. I think it would be a safe assumption that the overwhelming majority of text typed into Word is in the 10 to 12 point range, where condensing by a full point is far too much.

I stand by my original assertion that a default of 1 point is unhelpful. Interestingly, when clicking the up arrow, the condensing is increased in increments of 0. Sheryl, you're probably not considering about display text headlines, posters, and such, which are edited at very large size and where variable letter spacing kerning can be essential. I use this feature a good bit.

I always start with 0. The most I'll ever go is 0. Is there a way to change the default to 0. Got a version of Word that uses the ribbon interface Word or later? This site is for you! If you use an earlier version of Word, visit our WordTips site focusing on the menu interface. Visit the WordTips channel on YouTube. View the most recent newsletter.

Toggle navigation. In order to do that, simply follow these steps: Select the text you want to condense. Display the Font dialog box. See Figure 1.

Figure 1. The Advanced tab of the Font dialog box. Using the Spacing drop-down list, choose Condensed. Find the style you're using in the Styles gallery on the Home tab.

Near the center of the dialog box you'll find the line spacing buttons that let you select single, 1. Choose the spacing you want to apply and click OK. If you'd like to apply more specific line spacing to the style, clickthe Format button at the bottom left corner of the Modify Style dialog box and select Paragraph. The Line spacing drop-down lets you select or set more specific line spacing. For more information on modifying styles in Word, see: Customize styles in Word.

Using Styles in Word - a free, minute video training course. Change the font size. Set page margins. Align text left or right, center text, or justify text on a page. Change the line spacing in Word. Post a question in the Word Answers Community. Do you have suggestions about how we can improve Word?

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