First, you don't have to insert a line break, you could just insert a
centered tab and press ctrl+tab at the final line,

Tab alone will do; Ctrl+Tab accomplishes nothing different.

or just insert a line
break, and center align the final line.

You cannot have a different alignment on the last line unless you insert a
paragraph (not line) break.

Second, a line break would mess up
the entire document layout on a two column document.

I see no reason why this would be the case. A line break is not the same as
a column break. What do you mean by this?

Finally, whatever you
do, if you want to add additional text to the paragraph, the whole
document
gets a whole big mess.

This would certainly be true.

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"LGFN" wrote in message
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First, you don't have to insert a line break, you could just insert a
centered tab and press ctrl+tab at the final line, or just insert a line
break, and center align the final line. Second, a line break would mess up
the entire document layout on a two column document. Finally, whatever you
do, if you want to add additional text to the paragraph, the whole
document
gets a whole big mess.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you insert a line break at the end of the next-to-last line, you can
insert a tab character to push the last line to a centered tab stop at
the
center of the line.

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"LGFN" wrote in message
...
Making the final line of a paragraph a different allignment, i.e. the
body
text should be full justified and the last line of each paragraph,
centered.

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