Re: justifying a paragraph

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Could be you've got Alignment set to Justified under Format->Paragraph

Richard

"Jeff" <no_em@ilplease> wrote in message
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> Until recently, I had no issue with the way 'justify' presented a
> paragraph. It seemed to me that when a line was over a certain length,
> then Word would adjust spacing between words to fill the line. If it was
> a very short line, then the words would just look like they were aligned
> left, and there would be a long gap after the last word to fill the line
> with white space. Is this making sense?
>
> Now, something's changed. If I have only two words on a line, one is at
> the left margin, followed by a huge gap, and the second is at the right
> margin. It looks ridiculous. Three words would be placed left, centre and
> right of the page, and so on...
>
> I can't see what I might have done to change this, or how to change it
> back! Any ideas please?
> Thanks.
> Jeff
>


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