Thankyou very much Jay Freedman, i must have pressed Shift when i justified
the text. I suspect im not the only one who has had this problem before.
Makes you wonder why microsoft hasn't made much of an effort to publicise the
amount of problems/frustrations that could be solved by simple combinations
of the keyboard i.e. using Shift+F3 to capitalise, instead of typign text
again (if the intiial text was typed in the wrong case), and how to prevent
text being 'eaten' by pressing the "Insert" key.

Thanks for your time!

Ben Engel

There are two different alignments with similar shortcuts.
"Justified", which is what you want, is applied with Ctrl+J.
"Distributed", which is what you're getting, is applied with
Ctrl+Shift+J.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org