Horizontal alignment multiple rows

Question

Hi,

I have a Word 2013 document with two columns and need to get the rows of text to line up horizontally with each other. The document is using a heading style with each heading at 14 point and body text at 11. Paragraph spacing is set to 0 and line spacing set to 1,15 points. Is there a way to force the columns to have rows of text line up?

See example: http://s24.postimg.org/optgeqj11/ali...rizontally.png

Much appreciated,

John

Answer 1

There is no automatic method to align the body text lines when they're mixed with headings, lists, and other items that have different line heights and paragraph spacings. You'll have to make manual adjustments, mostly to the space before and after the headings and list items. That will have to be done after all editing of the text is complete; otherwise you might have to make additional adjustments.

Also, if the document is transferred to another computer that has a different default printer driver, the spacings (mostly between characters, which may affect where line endings occur) might change.

You may find some of the recommendations in http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/BottomLine.htm to be useful.

Answer 2

Thanks Jay for your answer.

I think the best way to get horizontal alignment is following these steps:

• set line spacing to Exactly12 or 14 points.
• set paragraph spacing to either 0 or the amount of points of the line spacing (or a multiple).
• set header spacing to either 0 or the amount of points of the line spacing (or a multiple).

See how well it works in this sample!

http://s15.postimg.org/h5y2hsvvf/samplehorizontal.png