how do I justify correctly in Publisher avoiding stretched words

[black dog]

Everytime I change from 1 to 2 colmns and then justify, some of the words
are stretched across the column. IE. INFORMATION becomes one line

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you using shift+enter? Turn on special characters, is there a tab?

 

[AustinPAWS]

I had that problem only when I pasted some text into a column that I copied
from a website. One word would stretch across the column--column width had
nothing to do with it--was in the translation of the sentence end code. I hit
a double delete at the end of each sentence and it worked the way the
"justify" is supposed to work.

 

[English Sunset]

You'll probably either have solved the problem or given up by now, but I
thought I'd have a go at answering it, in case anyone is looking for a
solution. I was having the very same problem in a publication I was putting
together with entries from various sources. I was able to justify most of
them correctly in Publisher with no problem, but I had one that persisted in
spreading one or two words across the whole line. I almost gave up, after
trying various cures without success. As a last resort, I copied the text
onto Notepad. I could then see that, between some of the words there were
little black rectangles (don't know the correct name for these characters)
that hadn't previously shown up. I deleted all these, then copied the text
back into Publisher. Hey presto! It justified perfectly!

 

[Anna]

You are fantastic! This double delete thing is exactly what I needed.
Thanks thanks thanks.