Justification Issues

[thediatonicseven]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I've got a document "justified" but the last sentence of each paragraph, each only having a few words, is spaced very far apart across the entire width of the page. I can't seem to justify the the bulk of each paragraph and left align the last lines; the document only allows one alignment for the whole document. Thoughts?

 

[John McGhie]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I've got a document "justified" but the last sentence of each paragraph, each
only having a few words, is spaced very far apart across the entire width of
the page. I can't seem to justify the the bulk of each paragraph and left
align the last lines; the document only allows one alignment for the whole
document. Thoughts?

From an answer by Jay Freedman in 2004:

What you're asking for is the way justified text usually works.
Something about your text is preventing it from behaving properly.
Press the ¶ button to display nonprinting characters, and look at the
end of the last line. Does it have a paragraph mark (¶) or a line
break (a left-pointing bent arrow)? The latter will cause the line to
justify, because Word doesn't consider it to be the end of the
paragraph. If so, delete the line break and/or replace it with a
paragraph mark.

Is there a section break between the last letter of the last line and
the paragraph mark? (You may not be able to see this in Page Layout
view; switch to Normal view to look.) If so, insert a paragraph mark
between the letter and the section break.

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