Unwanted extra space between words when formatting

[village]

Hello




When I try to format a text, sometimes I got annoying extra spaces to fill the full length of the row.
Is there a way to remove it?


thank you

[MartinGM]

Is that because you have "justify" CTRL J as the horizontal space setting ?
Try using Align Left CTRL L instead

[village]

Hello, thank you for your reply.
Even when I justify, the words are not "forced" not stretch to the whole length of the row.


Here and example of alignment on the left






and here justified ( in this case the words do not fill the all row)

[village]

apparently this happens when you hit "shift+enter" to end a sentence.

[MartinGM]

Which of the two examples is the one you want ?

[village]

I wanted justified, without extra spaces between words.

[MartinGM]

I am sorry but I am really not understanding you.

"Justified" means that each complete line fills the width of the page, with spacing between the words to achieve that. Inmco,plete lines finsish wherever they finsh, with blank space to the end of their line eg at the end of a paragraph.

That's what your second example looks like.

Is that what you want ?

How does that compare with what you are actually getting ? Where are the "extra spaces" appearing ?

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure that the paragraphs in the document begin and end where you want them, because the last line in a paragraph, terminated with Enter, won't be justified. To get a clear view of this, work with nonprinting marks displayed. Click the ¶ icon on the Home tab. Paragraph marks will be represented by pilcrows, ¶.

Also, to ensure that the spaces between words are more consistent in justified text, you may have to enable hyphenation in Word. On the Layout tab, click Hyphenation and choose an option, such as Automatic.

[village]

Originally Posted by MartinGM

I am sorry but I am really not understanding you.

"Justified" means that each complete line fills the width of the page, with spacing between the words to achieve that. Inmco,plete lines finsish wherever they finsh, with blank space to the end of their line eg at the end of a paragraph.

That's what your second example looks like.

Is that what you want ?

How does that compare with what you are actually getting ? Where are the "extra spaces" appearing ?

I will try to explain


I copied and pasted the text and I got this "arrangement", with justified text with extra spaces to cover the length of the row






then I wrote the text by myself, same font and size, and it appears like that, where top row is stretched, while the second arrives to the "."

[Stefan Blom]

If a paragraph ends with a manual line break (represented by a bent arrow with nonprinting marks displayed), you will see extra spaces between words. It seems you noticed this yourself. The fix is to avoid ending a "paragraph" with line breaks.

[village]

yes, thank you