How do you argue for the preference of ragged-right over justified alignment in print? Searching the web, I soon came across pages which mentioned research, but it was harder to actually find it. And I’ve discovered an additional argument with a twist that was new to me… I’m revisiting that post for two reasons: To my surprise, this has been one of my most popular posts in terms of search queries, so apparently this is an interesting topic. Today, I’m re-posting a piece that I first published on April 23, 2009, on the now defunct Content Wrangler site and then moved it to this blog as legacy material that was buried in the dark links of history… In this method, you can add a column only to your selected text.Which alignment on the printed page is better: Ragged-right or justified? It seems that ragged-right is preferable, at least in some circumstances. Word allows you to insert columns into an existing document, too.
RELATED: How To Adjust Column Size in Microsoft Word Add Columns With Existing Text in a Word Document That way your columns appear in the exact size you want. You now have columns similar to newspapers or magazines.Ĭolumns in Word use a set width by default, however, you can adjust this width to your liking. When you have added a column in your document, start typing and your text will be formatted in the column style.
The “Columns” menu displays various column types you can add to your document. On the “Layout” tab, in the “Page Setup” section, click “Columns.”
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