I don't want the last line of each paragraph justified

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Hello,

I am writing a rather large document and only now I have decided to have the
text justified rather than left alignment. However each time I try, Word
justifies the last line of each paragraph and so it looks rather silly each
final line
looking somewhat like
this.

Can anyone help me with this? I want the text to be justified, yes, but have
each line at the end also with words spaced normally, as in a normal book or
article.

Thank you, sincerely,
Jules
 
Make sure that you created true paragraphs, that is, that you have pressed Enter
at the end of each paragraph. If you used a line break (Shift+Enter), then what
you describe would happen.

To see what is going on, you should show nonprinting marks, for example by
pressing the ¶ button on the Home tab (Word 2007) or the Standard toolbar (Word
97-2003). Paragraph marks display as pilcrows (¶). For more on nonprinting
marks, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.
 
In addition to what Stefan has said (which is most likely the issue), make
sure you "justified" the text with Ctrl+J (if you used a keyboard shortcut).
If you happened to press Ctrl+Shift+J, which is the Distribute Text command,
you would also get the result you describe.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Since Jules describes spacing between words rather than between individual
letters, I concluded that DistributePara couldn't be the culprit, but I guess
it's worth investigating...
 
Ah, right you are. It just seems that every time this sort of question comes
up and I post to advise checking that the paragraph breaks are really that
and not line breaks, someone always comes behind me and brings up the
Distribute Para issue.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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