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In typography, justification refers to the way in which text is changed in relation to the margins in which it is placed. There are several types of justification:
In Word, these four justification types are referred to as paragraph alignments. Thus, a paragraph can be left, center, or right aligned. It can also be justified, which is the same as fill-justification.
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2016-07-10 06:24:27
Surendera M. Bhanot
The Keyboard shortcuts for various types of justifications are :
^l = Left Justification
^r = Right Justification
^e = Center Justification
^j = Fill Justification
It will applied to the current paragraph if no selection is made.
Will apply to the selection is applied to the selected text (the opening paragraph and the last paragraph of the selected text will be justified accordingly)
Press ^a before application of the justification to the entire document.
2016-07-10 06:18:07
Surendera M. Bhanor
Jerry Jenkins Just press <Entre> at the end of the line. <Enter> adds a paragraph break and the last line of the paragrapgh just behaves like as if it is left justified and put all the contents together with a single space between the words.
2016-07-09 13:57:00
You must have something different that you are unaware of. The last line in your comment, the justifications of other paragraphs, are the results you should always get with justified lines.
Use Control-Shift-8 (Ctrl-*) to display paragraph marks and see if anything looks unusual.
I have tried duplicating your problem, Word 2016, and cannot find any way to replicate it. For this one instance you might try this:
1. Hit return key at end of the next to last line. Except for last three words, paragraph is justified.
2. Remove space after justified paragraph if any.
3. Select remaining three-words, then justify left.
4. Add space after those three lines if required.
2016-07-09 09:51:35
Wondering how to fix the last, short line of a justified paragraph in Word 2016. It was just three words, but they were spaced several inches apart each to maintain justification. I tried blocking just that line and making it flush left, but the program then made the entire paragraph flush left. There has to be an easy solution for this, because other paragraphs in the document had short last lines that did not spread out to fill the space. Help?
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