Words lining up

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Can anyone help please I'm doing a list of phrases and I want them to line up both the left and the right even with some phases being smaller than others

Currently using word 2010 any help greatly appreciated

Sounds like you want the paragraphs "justified". I don't have the same version of word as you, but on mine you would do this:

• highlight the text you want to format as "justified"
• leaving the text highlighted go to the menu and ...
• choose "Format" and then "Paragraph" and then "Justify" or a square button with lines representing lines of text formatted as you described

Hope that works and gets it the way you wanted.

Thanks for the reply unfortunately I don't have a format button :(

Highlight the text, then in the ribbon at the top there's a button that look like;
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If you want to center-justify:

Select +(Ctrl+E)

Thanks for all your help but it still doesn't do what I need it to do :(

Perhaps try putting the text inside a table, then editing the table cell properties.

Have you played with Fonts? Perhaps a different font may justify both sides better, something like Courier perhaps.

Could you give some sample phrases so people on here could give it a try - though we won't all have Word 2010, least I don't.

The problem is if you have a small sentence 'the cat sat on the mat' spread across the full page, or there was one word in the line, it would be unreadable. The Justify format is the only way I think. Sorry cant be more helpful.

The reason it won't justify is that they are separate paragraphs.

To make them all the same paragraph you need to hit [Ctrl][Enter] at the end of each line instead of [Enter]. Then the methods stated (or [Ctrl]-J) will work.

Mr Anchovy I could kiss you thank you soooo much all sorted

Thanks to everyone for all your replies greatly appreciated