justifying a paragraph

[Jeff]

Until recently, I had no issue with the way 'justify' presented a paragraph.
It seemed to me that when a line was over a certain length, then Word would
adjust spacing between words to fill the line. If it was a very short line,
then the words would just look like they were aligned left, and there would
be a long gap after the last word to fill the line with white space. Is
this making sense?

Now, something's changed. If I have only two words on a line, one is at the
left margin, followed by a huge gap, and the second is at the right margin.
It looks ridiculous. Three words would be placed left, centre and right of
the page, and so on...

I can't see what I might have done to change this, or how to change it back!
Any ideas please?
Thanks.
Jeff

 

[Rob graham]

You've probably got a soft return at the end of the line. You need a hard
return. Hit the big black P backwards button on the toolbar to turn on
formatting marks and you will see a little bent arrow rather than a big
black P backwards. Put your cursor just in front of the little bent arrow
and hit Enter. You should then delete the little bent arrow.

Rob Graham

 

[Edward O'Brien]

Hi, Jeff.

You don't seem to be having much luck!

When justified all lines have to terminate to form an order. The last line
of a pragraph has to be terminated by hitting the Return key.

A "Page Break" does not work.

Regards,

Ed

 

[mpt]

Could be you've got Alignment set to Justified under Format->Paragraph

Richard