Microsoft office word justify. With your cursor in the paragraph or line that you want to justify press ctrl j cmd j on a macintosh. Both the left and right sides of a paragraph are neat and tidy flush with the margins. When you justify text space is added between words so that both edges of each line are aligned with both margins. In the word file that you want to insert the text and align to left and right and then click home in the paragraph group click the paragraph settings icon see screenshot.
To finish this task quickly and easily please do with the following step by step. 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. Every time you press enter you create a new paragraph in a word document. Alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraph.
The last line in the paragraph is aligned left. To center text in word use the vertical alignment menu. Click anywhere in the paragraph that you want to justify. Align text on both left and right sides on same line of a word document.
You can see the paragraph markers which dont print by clicking the showhide button on the word. On the home tab in the paragraph group click justify text. The vertical alignment menu also controls top justified and bottom position for text. However you may justify a single line of text as follows.
Lining up both sides of a paragraph is full justification. In word 2019 you can format entire paragraphs to reduce the monotony of your formatting tasks. To center text in word for only part of the document highlight what you want to center before choosing vertical alignment. Paragraphs are the building blocks of word documents.