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I have a WORD document that ia alighned to the left margin. I want to change it to justified (straight margins on both sides. The process of highlighting the text and selecting justify is not working!
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After Ctrl + Shift + 8 i did find paragraph marks on every line. How do I remove them?
If each text "line" ends with a paragraph mark and each new paragraph is indicated by two paragraph marks, you can use Find & Replace (Ctrl+H). For more, see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/CleanWebText.htm .
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Hi, I'm John! I will help you with this.
Just to clarify, does nothing happen when you click Justify, or does the text stay left-aligned even though the Justify button appears selected?
A common cause is that the document contains a paragraph mark (Enter) at the end of every line instead of normal paragraphs. When that happens, Word cannot fully justify the text because each line is treated as a separate paragraph.
As a quick test, could you open the same document in Word for the web and see if Justify works there? This will help determine whether the issue is with the document itself or with the desktop Word app.
Also, please press Ctrl + Shift + 8 to show paragraph marks (¶) and let us know if you see a paragraph mark at the end of every line or any manual line breaks. Those can prevent justification from working as expected.
After Ctrl + Shift + 8 i did find paragraph marks on every line. How do I remove them?
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Before making changes, I recommend saving a copy of the document.
Then try this:
After that, select the text and click Justify again.