
When you apply justified alignment to a paragraph, the last line does not extend across the full width of the text area.

There are also shortcut keys (see the table in Keyboard Shortcuts below) for setting the type of alignment. You can change the type of alignment of the paragraph where your cursor is located or of a group of selected paragraphs by clicking the applicable button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab.

This is achieved by inserting additional space between words.

For this reason, this page is divided into the following sections, and the applicable options are described in each section. However, these options are not available in a single location, and some of these locations differ in different versions of Word. Word's graphical user interface (GUI) provides ways to apply numerous formatting options to your paragraphs.

Even a very simple document with a centered heading and a justified body contains paragraphs with two different types of formatting. Word documents generally contain paragraphs with different formatting. A paragraph is a unit of text or other content that starts at the beginning of a document, immediately after a hard return (a carriage return), a page break, or a section break, or at the beginning of a table cell, header, footer, or list of footnotes and ends with a hard return (carriage return) or at the end of a table cell.
