Help us improve Word Change the line spacing in Word. The Vertical Alignment menu also controls Top, Justified, and Bottom text alignment. Yes, there is a way to get the text Justified for all lines, even partial lines, without having to resort to adding spaces. 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. The text-justify property in CSS is a companion to the text-align property that is used to set the justification method of text when text-align is set to the justify value.. p { text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; } Values. Post a question in the Word Answers Community. Set page margins. justified—text is aligned along the left margin, with letter-spacing and word-spacing adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification; centered —text is aligned to neither the left nor right margin; there is … Word Fails to Load. A typical place for doing this is in the headers and footers of a page. Alignment. On those partial lines … 1. Format - Paragraph; select Alignment, remove the checkmark in Expand single word below Last line. Talk about a nightmare. You load your word processor, and it either freezes up or closes down. Do you have a question about Word that we didn't answer here? Using Styles in Word - a free, 10-minute video training course. On the last line of the paragraph where the line is stretched to the end with big gaps between, put the cursor in front of each word that is stretched out and backspace to delete the space. Align text left or right, center text, or justify text on a page. Text can be left aligned, right aligned , centered or justified. The advice below works in both Word 2007 and Word 2010. Change the font size. Depending on the program you're using to create your text document, you may find that justified text alignment causes the last lines of your paragraphs to get stretched out. To center text in Word, use the Vertical alignment menu. To center text in Word for only part of the document, highlight what you want to center before choosing Vertical Alignment. In Word Perfect this is done in a left-justified paragraph by typing the text on the left, pressing the Center key, typing the centered text, and then pressing Right-Justify and typing the text for the right margin. inter-word: Specifies that text is justified by adjusting the spacing between words, effectively creating additional word spacing. Ctrl-Enter = page break; Shift-Enter = line break. 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