Word Issue: Justify + Line Break Solved

Question

Hello,

I hope this topic hasn't been posted too many times: in my Word (2008 for Mac, version 12.3.2), when I want to simply go to the next line (with shift+enter) to start a new paragraph, it automatically justifies the last line, which doesn't have enough words to fill a complete line. As a result, there are many spaces between the words, and it creates poor formatting. However, when I skip a line, I don't have this problem (it lets the last line end normally).

Do you have a solution? Thank you very much in advance,
Victor

Configuration: Mac OS X / Firefox 8.0.1

Patrice33740 · Accepted Answer

Good evening,

A tip to avoid justifying the line of a paragraph that contains a manual line break (Shift + Enter):
Precede the manual line break with a tabulation (Tab then Shift + Enter).
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Best regards
Patrice

m@rina · Answer

Hello,

Putting a tab at the end of the line will indeed work. However, it's not a very clean method.

I'm going to give you the Word method that you will promptly (of course...) convert into a Mac version (which I can't do)! ;)

In the Word options, advanced options
At the bottom, show layout options
Check the option "Stretch spaces for lines ending with Shift+Return"

This will solve your problem even if the wording of this option seems to do the opposite!! :)

m@rina
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Patrice33740 · Answer

Good evening m@rina and happy new year,  Indeed, it's not very "clean" but it also works with older versions of Word, which offers better portability. -- Best regards Patrice

Raymond PENTIER · Answer

Hello Victor.  I would like to add, for the sake of a complete discussion, that it is inaccurate to say "when I simply want to go to the next line (with shift+enter) to start a new paragraph, it automatically justifies the last line"; it's you who set the alignment to "justified" for the paragraph (or the entire document). You simply need to change the standard alignment to "left" to prevent this from happening!  Best regards. -- Retirement is great! Especially in the Caribbean ... :-) &#9787; Raymond &#9794;

Totr · Answer

Hello everyone, and thank you for your replies,

Actually, for a better presentation of my document, I would like to justify it while being able to change paragraphs without skipping a line. So indeed, it was me who asked to justify, but when I ask it to align the last line to the left, it aligns the entire paragraph. So right now, I'm stuck with either justifying or automatically skipping lines.

Thank you for the tip, it works, so for now, out of lack of better options, I'm applying it because I can't seem to apply the global method for Mac, I can't find the "Word Options". If anyone has any insights, please do not hesitate, but I've searched high and low, and I just can't find it.

In any case, thank you very much to all for your quick messages.
Best regards,
Victor

Raymond PENTIER · Answer

"I would like to justify and be able to change paragraphs without skipping a line"; that's very easy: in Line spacing options or in Right click/Format/Paragraph/Spacing you set Before 0 pt and After 0 pt, and you check "Do not add space between paragraphs of the same style". -- Retirement is great! Especially in the Caribbean ... :-) &#9787; Raymond &#9794;

Totr · Answer

Thank you, Raymond, it's okay, I used your method!  And once again, thank you all for your availability Victor

Word Issue: Justify + Line Break

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