How do I unjustify the last line of a justified paragrah without .

[jcs1317]

In some cases when I am justifying a paragraph, the last line is also
justified and if there are only a few words in the line, it looks very
strange with all of the spaces between the words.

However at other times, the last line is unjustified even though the rest of
the paragraph is; so I know there is a way to keep the last line from
justifying but I have been unable to find the propertechnique to do it.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Click at the end of the last line of the paragraph and press the Enter key.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word does not ordinarily justify the last line of a paragraph unless you
have inadvertently applied "Distribute Paragraph" (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of
Justify (Ctrl+J). You may want to display nonprinting characters and make
sure that your paragraph actually ends with a paragraph break. If it ends
with a line break, you would see the behavior you describe.

 

[hstokar]

I have this same problem. Hitting enter makes a new paragraph with an extra
line below that I do not want. I cannot seem to unjustify a short 2 word
last line...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The last line of a paragraph is never justified unless you have applied the
"Distribute Text" property (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of Justify (Ctrl+J). But
if the "paragraph" actually ends with a line break, then the last line will
be justified. If the problem is cured by pressing Enter, that that is
undoubtedly the situation you have. You need to display nonprinting
characters so you can see what you're dealing with; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

I have this same problem. Hitting enter makes a new paragraph with an extra
line below that I do not want. I cannot seem to unjustify a short 2 word
last line...

it.

 

[Candice]

well i am usually very good with word, but i tried every suggestion on here
and none of them workd for me.

i think it's lovely that word help will tell you how to justify the last
line of a paragraph but they won't tell you how to un-justify it. if worse
comes to worse and you need to print out your document anyway, just do what i
did: insert a bunch of periods on the last line until you're satisfied and
then color them white!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word does *not* justify the last line of a paragraph. If it is doing it for
you, that's because it isn't really the last line but instead ends in a line
break. Text pasted from the Web often has line breaks instead of paragraph
breaks. You can tell the difference if you display nonprinting characters.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm