The last line of a paragraph is never justified unless you have applied the
"Distribute Text" property (Ctrl+Shift+J) instead of Justify (Ctrl+J). But
if the "paragraph" actually ends with a line break, then the last line will
be justified. If the problem is cured by pressing Enter, that that is
undoubtedly the situation you have. You need to display nonprinting
characters so you can see what you're dealing with; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

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I have this same problem. Hitting enter makes a new paragraph with an
extra
line below that I do not want. I cannot seem to unjustify a short 2 word
last line...

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Click at the end of the last line of the paragraph and press the Enter
key.

"jcs1317" wrote:

In some cases when I am justifying a paragraph, the last line is also
justified and if there are only a few words in the line, it looks very
strange with all of the spaces between the words.

However at other times, the last line is unjustified even though the
rest of
the paragraph is; so I know there is a way to keep the last line from
justifying but I have been unable to find the propertechnique to do
it.