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How do I turn off 'snap to grid' option in line spacing that is set in Japanese version of Word?

Anonymous
2016-09-23T10:38:42+00:00

We are a group of volunteers based in different countries, using different platforms and speaking different languages. We pass around and share documents originated from various sources.

Sometimes we come across a Word document with a strange, somewhat spread-out line spacing that cannot be re-formatted by changing the simple line-spacing values. It turns out that someone with a Word for Mac 2011 (that's me) can remedy this by turning off one of the options in the Paragraph dialogue box that says something along the line of: When fixing the numbers of lines per page, snap the lines to the grid .

However, this option does not seem to be available on others' who are using the usual English version (Mac and PC), and none of my colleague has been able to get rid of the strange line spacing.

Is there any way for those who without the Asian script to be able to turn this option off?

Thanks for your help.

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Jay Freedman 207.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2016-09-23T14:29:22+00:00

The article https://www.edanzediting.com/resources/word-processing-tips-and-tricks-manuscript-appearance-snap-grid shows where to look for the option to turn off the snap to grid.

Trying this out, I found that the option appears in the Font > Advanced dialog only if an Asian language is active on the computer. In Windows, that means going to the Region & Languages page in the Settings (Windows 10) or the Languages page in the Control Panel (earlier Windows) and adding an Asian language. After the option is turned off, you can go back and remove the language from Windows. Mac users will probably have a similar task.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-24T00:34:43+00:00

    Thank you, Jay.

    I was hoping that there might be a way to turn this off that wouldn't involve activating an Asian script in the operating system - as the majority in our group doesn't need to have that, and none of the documents we share actually contains any Asian script. Rather inconvenient if we have to keep adding/removing an Asian language every time we come across this problem. Let's hope this will be looked at as a part of the upgrade near future.

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