In Word, when I select a line in a paragraph (the last line) and click Ctrl+L (Align Text Left), the whole paragraph is aligned to the left, not just my selected line. I want to justify the rest of the paragraph both left and right
Is there a way to do this with just the selected line, so that the remaining lines in the paragraph are not affected?
EDIT: I found the solutions. After the last line of the paragraph I must press enter for that last line to be left aligned, otherwise that last line will still be Justified and looks ugly if it's only a few words
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Many people use justified paragraphs in their documents. These types of paragraphs align both the left and right edges of the text in the paragraph, much like what is done in many books and magazine articles. If you are one of these people, you may have noticed that when you add a manual line break (Shift+Enter) in a justified paragraph, Word forces the line to the full width of the paragraph. This can look very strange and ruin the appearance of your text.
You can avoid this problem, however, by making sure that you enter a tab character just before the manual line break. When you do, Word makes the line with the tab left aligned, ignoring the justification alignment you applied to the whole paragraph.
Source: Using Manual Line Breaks with Justified Paragraphs by Allen Wyatt
What are you doing that causes the last line of a paragraph to be aligned anything other than Left?
4I don't know of a way to align only a sentence. The property you are adjusting is a property of the paragraph.
As you have found, it changes the entire paragraph. You might try using the Tab to move it.
