Make sure that you're justifying with Ctrl+J and not Ctrl+Shift+J
(Distribute Text). Also, there are some cases where line breaks will be
displayed as paragraph breaks. Try deleting one and pressing Enter to
replace it. Does that make any difference?

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"Paul" wrote in message
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Hello, group. My name is Paul. I am using Word 2002. Here is my
problem. I am editing a 380-page document that someone else sent to me.
I am having to justify all the paragraphs. If the last words of a
paragraph do not fill up the line, they are stretched
out, so the last line looks
like this, or worse.
And when I align the last line with the left margin, Word aligns the
whole paragraph with the left margin. And there goes my justification.

Someone suggested to me that the problem could be that the person who
sent me the document used soft returns instead of hard returns. I
checked, and they used hard returns. Can anyone suggest any other
possible solutions to this? I would really be grateful if they could.
Thank you.