Justify last line of paragraph?

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Justify last line of paragraph?

Anyone know how to justify the last line of a paragraph so it spreads the words out all the way across the page? Most word processors I've used have an opt/ctrl/shift/etc.-return key-combo that does this, but I can't seem to get Pages to allow it. The last line is always only as far as the characters stretch. I want the whole text to look like a block, without adjusting the margins, not a block with a dangling line.

MacBook Black, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 7:32 PM

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Jan 13, 2009 7:44 PM in response to senseabove

It is an ugly effect. Type layout should be for legibility not making shapes with and legibility should stay paramount.

Indesign can do a reasonable version of this because it has an extremely sophisticated multi-line composer and will adjust all the other lines above it to try and balance it.

Pages can not do it at all as far as I know, but you could try to get a similar effect by selecting the entire paragraph, justifying it and then expanding the word and characters spacing till it fills out the block, with a soft return at the end of the paragraph to get it do the full justification, but you will have to hide the extra blank line in your composition somehow.

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