I want to use WORD to layout a dialogue. I want the person name portion left aligned and the sentence portion left aligned too. If the sentence is too long to stay in one line, the start of the second line should have the same left bound as the first line. How can I implement this?
Word – How to use MS Word tab to implement the this dialogue layout
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When you set the layout to be centered vertically on the page, it affects the entire page. I cannot find a way to do what you want - having two columns with different vertical heights. Insert a line between the two columns and I think you'll begin to see what is going on. The shorter column will determine the height of the container used for the entire content on the page.
To do what you want, insert a table with one row and two columns. You can expand the table to fill the entire page, and then center the text vertically in the table cells. Remove the borders and it looks exactly like your two columns.
1. Is it just Times New Roman that does this automatically?
2. How can I get even spaces between words in this font?
3. Can I stop it from automatically condensing?
So far as I know: 1. No, 2. You can't and 3. No.
I believe the correct terminology is left and right aligned.
Not according to Adobe
alignment
The positioning of text within the page margins. Alignment can be flush left, flush right, justified, or centered. Flush left and flush right are sometimes referred to as left justified and right justified.
(my emphasis)
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Use the alignment pegs (I forget what they're called exactly -- please correct me) circled here:
You can then align each separate section to the left.