I was going to suggest that your last line probably ended in a line break
instead of a paragraph break. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.
Word will justify any line ending in a soft break or a line break, though
there is a Compatibility Option "Don't expand character spaces on the line
ending Shift-Return." Enabling this option would solve your problem, but the
more usual solution would be to substitute a paragraph break.
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"bretsharon" wrote in message
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More information.
By clicking on the ¶ symbol, I found that what ends the the last sentence
of
a paragraph is ot ¶ but is instead a symbol I have not seen before. It
looks
like a backward "L" with an arrow on the base pointing to the left.
Something like this:
___| What is this?
"bretsharon" wrote:
Sorry, it does ragged right and left justify when I use Control+J. Its
when
it is the Control+J mode that the last sentence goes distributed.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
It sounds as if someone used the Distribute command (Ctrl+Shift+J)
instead
of Justify (Ctrl+J). Try pressing Ctrl+J or Ctrl+L.
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"bretsharon" wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply. I tried Ctrl+A and nothing happended.
I checked on the settings and the default is US English.
Note that it just does it on some lines, like the last line of a
paragraph,
but not every paragraph. Sometimes you will type a word then hit
space,
the
curser then goes to the right margin and the text will distribute
the
words
across the page evenly (not the letters)
Hitting enter removes the problem for the last sentence.
It seems to only do it on justified.
here is a stand alone sentence, for example:
A more technical note: A reader writes this:
A is on left margin and : is on the right margin... and the words
are
distributed evenly, with big spaces between. It does this on Word
2003
and
2007. Don't upgrade, I see nothing different except they have made
the
commands harder to see the menu and to figure out. MicroHard
misleads
again.
for example
Thank you.
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Does Ctrl+Q (which removes direct paragraph formatting) help? If
not:
Have you tried removing any left-to-right languages in Office
Language
Settings? For more, see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.
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"bretsharon" wrote in message
...
I have a similar problem as describedby Ben444 regarding Cntrl+J
and
Cntrl+Shift+J, except that his problem was that the letters get
distributed.
My problem keeps the letters together and does not distribute,
but
instead
starts from the right margin and words type move to the left.
It seems to be just on sentences, not the whole document