Justify all and last line of paragraphs

[Phil P]

Walt, I am writing a paper in Affinity Publisher. I create a text frame. I am single spacing and justifying. I enable the "Justify Left" button at the top, which to my understanding justifies everything but the last line.I get to the end of what I call a paragraph (a group of sentences pertaining to a related theme, subject, thought, etc. which is subordinate to the total content of the paper). I want to start a new paragraph but without skipping a line. The last sentence of my paragraph only contains a few words. I don't want those few words to be fully justified. 

How can I do that?

Thanks for your patience.

[Alfred]

59 minutes ago, Phil P said:

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I used a "clipping" utility to clip the section of the desired section of the screen I wish to clip, or the entire screen, then save it to a folder. Then "Choose files" and go to the folder. etc.

Just do the same thing to share your saved *.afpub file here: 'choose files...' to go to the folder where you saved it, and then upload it exactly as you uploaded the file you saved from your clipping utility.

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, Phil P said:

Walt, I am writing a paper in Affinity Publisher. I create a text frame. I am single spacing and justifying. I enable the "Justify Left" button at the top, which to my understanding justifies everything but the last line.I get to the end of what I call a paragraph (a group of sentences pertaining to a related theme, subject, thought, etc. which is subordinate to the total content of the paper). I want to start a new paragraph but without skipping a line. The last sentence of my paragraph only contains a few words. I don't want those few words to be fully justified. 

How can I do that?

Thanks for your patience.

You hit Enter at the end of the paragraph, and that line will not be justified. 

You are probably using Shift+Enter, instead, which does not end the Paragraph. If you turn on Text > Show Special Characters you can confirm if you've done that. And if you show us a screenshot of that we can see, too.

If you need it all single-spaced, you adjust the Space After setting in the Paragraph Panel or Paragraph Text Style. 

[Phil P]

Thanks to all who responded.

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, Phil P said:

I get to the end of what I call a paragraph (a group of sentences pertaining to a related theme, subject, thought, etc. which is subordinate to the total content of the paper). I want to start a new paragraph but without skipping a line.

@Phil P: If I look in the file you provided last year, you were (and probably still are) in the case described here above:

Go in the Text menu and enable Show special characters: 
You will then be able to check if you used Line breaks (⏎) or adequate Paragraph breaks (¶).

 

For the extra space after paragraph you don't want (the reason why you were using shift-return instead of return key), you have to set Space after to 0 pt in the Spacing section of the Paragraph panel or the Text style definition. 

 

(Walt was faster than me…)

 

 

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, Oufti said:

Walt was faster than me

But you were able to provide the screenshots, and more research. Thanks.

[Oufti]

There were already many good answers, but apparently without many results, so I tried to explain the same but differently… 🙂

 

[Phil P]

Thanks to all. I'll try it tomorrow. I just can't get it. I think maybe I don't know all of the language you are using, and I guess I'm at a below novice level.🤪

My head hurts, I'm going to bed. But I really appreciate the help.