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If you have a fully justified document, and you hit return to begin a new
paragraph, is there a way to make the rest of the line justify, or are you
stuck with a hanging indent? I would imagine this might be able to be
accomplished via macro, but was wondering if this could also be setup another
way?

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:45:02 -0800, Nat wrote:

If you have a fully justified document, and you hit return to begin a new
paragraph, is there a way to make the rest of the line justify, or are you
stuck with a hanging indent? I would imagine this might be able to be
accomplished via macro, but was wondering if this could also be setup another
way?

Thanks a lot,


Word does have an additional alignment mode to do that, which it calls
"Distributed". You can't set it through the Format Paragraph dialog, but the
default keyboard for it is Ctrl+Shift+J.

Unlike the Justified alignment, Distributed adds space between the letters
within words in the last line, not just in the spaces between words. That makes
it very ugly unless the last line is already almost full.

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