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justify text with a typewriter
| Field | Secretarial Skills |
| Went Obsolete | 1980 |
| Made Obsolete By | Word Processor |
| Knowledge Assumed | Typing |
| When useful | Typing a Newsletter by Hand |
“Justified” means that the text of every line goes to the right and left margin, like in a book. At one time newsletters, church bulletins and such were reproduced directly from typewritten material, and justifying the margins made the text look nice.
1234567891123456789212345678931234567894123456789512345678961234567897 As you type on a typewriter, when you get close to the end of a line a bell rings, giving you a chance to finish or hypenate the word you are typing. If you keep typing until you reach the margin, the machine will stop and you won't be able to type until you push the carriage back. Justifying text is a two-step process. First type the text. When the bell rings, finish your word, then type a slash followed by 2, 3, 4 etc. until you can't type any more. Now take a fresh sheet of paper and retype the page, adding spaces between words. The last number of each line is the number of spaces you have to add here and there in the line. As you type on a typewriter, when you get close to the end of a line/2 a bell rings, giving you a chance to finish or hypenate the word you/2 are typing. If you keep typing until you reach the margin, the/2345678 machine will stop and you won't be able to type until you push the/234 carriage back. Justifying text is a two-step process. First type/234 the text. When the bell rings, finish your word, then type a slash/23 followed by 2, 3, 4 etc. until you can't type any more. Now take a/23 fresh sheet of paper and retype the page, adding spaces between words. The last number of each line is the number of spaces you have to add/2 here and there in the line. As you type on a typewriter, when you get close to the end of a line a bell rings, giving you a chance to finish or hyphenate the word you are typing. If you keep typing until you reach the margin, the machine will stop and you won't be able to type until you push the carriage back. Justifying text is a two-step process. First type the text. When the bell rings, finish your word, then type a slash followed by 2, 3, 4 etc. until you can't type any more. Now take a fresh sheet of paper and retype the page, adding spaces between words. The last number of each line is the number of spaces you have to add here and there in the line.
