large spacing between words in justified paragraph

[alex.rubinshteyn]

Hi, i'm having a problemw ith microsoft word 2000.

My paragrphs are justified and sometimes the last sentence in a
paragraph will be stretched over the entire width of a page, even
though the last sentence may only have a small number of words in it.
Since there are a small number of words in the sentence and it's
stretched over the entire width of the page, the spacing between the
words is large. How do i fix this? Pressing enter at the end of the
paragraph doesn't work.


Thank you.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, i'm having a problemw ith microsoft word 2000.

My paragrphs are justified and sometimes the last sentence in a
paragraph will be stretched over the entire width of a page, even
though the last sentence may only have a small number of words in it.
Since there are a small number of words in the sentence and it's
stretched over the entire width of the page, the spacing between the
words is large. How do i fix this? Pressing enter at the end of the
paragraph doesn't work.


Thank you.

You're using "full justification" (Ctrl+Shift+J) where you should be
using only "justification" (Ctrl+J).

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Jay,

I see no option for "full justification" in the
format paragraph dialog. Is this accessible only
by (Ctrl+Shift+J) or programmatically?

Selection.Paragraphs(1).Alignment = wdAlignParagraphDistribute

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi Jay,

I see no option for "full justification" in the
format paragraph dialog. Is this accessible only
by (Ctrl+Shift+J) or programmatically?

Selection.Paragraphs(1).Alignment = wdAlignParagraphDistribute

Yes, that's true. If you select text that's already full-justified and
go into the Format > Paragraph dialog, the alignment dropdown shows a
blank entry. It looks like somebody at MS forgot to fill the list
completely.

 

[alex.rubinshteyn]

Hi I tried highlighting the last setence and the entire last paragraph
and pressing ctrl+shift+j, but nothing happened. I tried tried ctrl+j,
and nothign happened either. If i left justify the last line the entire
paragrph becomes left justified so that solution's out.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[alex.rubinshteyn]

Hi I tried highlighting the last setence and the entire last paragraph
and pressing ctrl+shift+j, but nothing happened. I tried tried ctrl+j,
and nothign happened either. If i left justify the last line the entire
paragrph becomes left justified so that solution's out.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi I tried highlighting the last setence and the entire last paragraph
and pressing ctrl+shift+j, but nothing happened. I tried tried ctrl+j,
and nothign happened either. If i left justify the last line the entire
paragrph becomes left justified so that solution's out.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

You should definitely *not* use Ctrl+Shift+J. I'm a little surprised
that Ctrl+J didn't change anything.

Click the ¶ button on the toolbar to show the nonprinting characters.
Is there anything between the last character on the last line of the
paragraph and the paragraph mark (which looks like the symbol on the
button)? Maybe an arrow pointing to the left, which is a line break?
If so, select it and delete it.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi I tried highlighting the last setence and the entire last paragraph
and pressing ctrl+shift+j, but nothing happened. I tried tried ctrl+j,
and nothign happened either. If i left justify the last line the entire
paragrph becomes left justified so that solution's out.

Hi Alex-

Just for clarification, Justification (or Alignment) is a paragraph
attribute. Whatever you use is applied to an entire paragraph, you can't
'mix' left, right, centered & justified in the same paragraph.

What happens if you reformat the para _left_, then reformat it _justified_?

Regards |:>)
Any other suggestions?