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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default why last sentence in justified paragraph extends to far right?

The command in question is represented in the Undo list as "Distribute
Para," but I cannot find this anywhere in the All Commands list in Tools |
Customize, so I can't guess at a VBA equivalent (and there seems to be no
way to add it to a menu or toolbar). Perhaps someone else can help?

I would guess it is very likely a command associated with complex scripts or
Asian languages or some such; it may be that if you enable those, you would
be able to find it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Major" wrote in message
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Suzanne,

This distribute (force-justify) functionality is exactly what I need for a
Word document I am working on. I have lines of text I need to force
justify,
but I cannot use Shift-Enter as it messes up my line count.

This functionality is not described in Word help or in any other
documentation I can find. Admittedly, I'm not into Visual Basic
programming
so maybe that's where it comes from. How did you find out about this?
Where
can I find more documentation? Is Control-Shift-J the only way to apply
it
outside of Visual Basic? Can it be applied from the default Word menus?
I'm
using Word 2003.

Major

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

And it that's not the problem, then it could be that the OP (or someone)
pressed Ctrl+Shift+J (Distribute Text) instead of Ctrl+J (Justify).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Is the paragraph terminated with a normal paragraph mark (Enter) or
with a
new line character (Shift+Enter)? If it's not a normal paragraph mark,
that's likely to be the problem. Put the cursor at the end of the
paragraph and press Enter.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Daveybau" wrote in message
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The paragraph is formatted to align "justified". The last sentence in
the
paragraph has only three words. The three words are equally spaced so
that
the last word is lined up to the far right of the document. How do I
correct
this problem?