Many word processing programs account for this problem and automatically apply left align text when there are too few words on a line to justify the text properly.

How to justify text in word except last line. Display nonprinting characters to confirm this. Barnhill Microsoft MVP Word Words into Type Fairhope Alabama. However you may justify a single line of text as follows.

You can select paragraphs and then use the Paragraph panel to set. Note that as we saw in the Text Wrap lesson you may need to double-click the row border to get the row to resize properly. Microsoft Word will not normally justify a single line of text because the command is designed to justify all but the last line of a paragraph.

This will add an end-of-paragraph marker to mark the end and it will stop the justification. A hard return is accomplished by pressing the Enter button on your keyboard. In the case of the third paragraph the hard return which again signifies the true end of the paragraph is after the section breakall the way on.

Extra space from being added to the bottom. Words justification setting actually left-aligns the last line automatically but sometimes a glitch occurs and justifies the whole thing -- or you may have justified the last line manually by pressing Ctrl or Shift along with Enter when you created a new paragraph. Type or place your cursor at the end of the line of text that you wish to justify.

This will add an end-of-paragraph marker to mark the end and it will stop the justification. When you justify a paragraph Word justifies every line in that paragraph except the final line. You can justify all text in a paragraph either including or excluding the last line.

If you want to justify just a single line use this. This video will explain How To Left Justify Text in a Word Document Using a Keyboard Shortcut. When you distribute text space is added between characters so that both edges of each line are aligned with both margins.