Hello all. First post so I hope I am in the right place :-)



Using Vista SP2 and Office 2007.

I keep losing justification after using the return key and wondered if there was a way round this please. May I explain?
At the start of the year I create a business diary in Word thus in advance and the whole document is set to 'justify'. E.g.
Mon 011012
Tue 021012
Wed 031012
Thur 041012 etc

If I wish to add text to say Wed 031012 I place the cursor after the '2' and use the return button to start a new line thus:
Wed 031012
Meeting at Smith's 1pm and they agreed new contract for 250 laptops at £125,000.

As soon as I hit return the otherwise justified document changes to 'align left' and I either have to highlight the new paragraph and select 'justify' or 'select all' and 'justify' the whole document again.

Why does it do this? Is there a setting to make sure the whole document remains justified without changing the last line of a paragraph. By that I mean if the paragraph is say 6 lines long, the first 5 remain justified whilst the last line if only a word or two automatically left aligns. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks.

My first thought is to question if you have set any "styles". Reference: http://www.shaunakelly.com/topic/word/styles.

For example, if you had each line mention created with a 'style' of "Body Text" with the text 'justified' and then you hit the return, the following line does not retain the same "style" (body text) as the previous line but, reverts to the style of 'normal' (where the text may be defaulted to align left (or, left justified).

So, in a nutshell, check your styles (if you have actually created the file with 'styles'. If you have not, you may consider doing so).

Hi JimP

Brilliant and so simple when you think about it - obviously such things bypass a man of my age!

Problem solved. Many thanks indeed for your prompt and informative reply.

Best regards.