Issues with both openoffice and libreoffice with justified

[spiderman1234]

Issues with both openoffice and libreoffice with justified.
I am trying to help someone who needs to have everything
he writes the same length of each sentence. I thought that
justified was suppose to do that but the only want I got it
to be on the same line was by using hotmail's Microsoft
word I'm trying this on both openoffice and libreoffice
any suggest would be great. A example of this would be


testing testing 123
I like to eat lambs
testing you got it1

[RoryOF]

"Justified" means expanding the type to fit into the width selected, be it the space between margins or the width of the column in which the type is placed. So if you require type to be justified in a narrow measure you have to set that up, either by adjusting Page Margins in the Page style setup, or by using columns either on the page or in an OO Section.

If each of the lines in your sample is terminated with Enter, then you should adjust the Paragraph Style Used so that on the Alignment tab "Justified" is selected under Options, and (unusually) "Last line" is also selected to be "Justified", using the dropdown beside "Last Line"; whether you decide to select "Expand single word" to fill the line is your decision.

It can be helpful to turn on /View /Non printing characters to see how the lines are terminated (same command tuns off that non-printing display).

[Bill]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. If "the same length of each sentence" means "the same number of characters on each line", then "justified" will do that only if you use a fixed-width font where each character is the same width. If you use a proportional font where characters are not the same width, then the number of charactes will vary from line to line.

[Lupp]

Justified paragraph alignment doesn't work with the last (or only) line of a paragraph. That's common heritage from book (or newspaper) print. If you want to get it applied to whatever you mean by "senteces", you need to separate these by hard line breaks - and to append an empty line behind the last one.

Also see this demo:

demoJustified_1.odt

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[spiderman1234]

i don't understand the replies sorry guys.
any other ideas how I can make it look t
so that all the sentences are the same l
length on each sentence like this right n

[RoryOF]

I have told you exacty how to do this in my reply to your post.