End of line Shift Return in Publisher

[fitzj]

How do I fix this in Affinity Publisher?

[walt.farrell]

Don't use Justify All. Use Justify Left, instead.

[fitzj]

Tried that and it makes no difference. I  placed a word document into a frame and used the shift key to fill all the frames. Perhaps  this  process did something that now does not allow justification?

[fitzj]

I cut and pasted the page into a new document and the same problem.

[walt.farrell]

Shift- return adds a hard line break. Justification depends on being able to flow words between lines, and hard line breaks prevent that.

So yes, if you've used shift-return between the lines you've prevented proper justification.

[walt.farrell]

I think you'll need to use Find & Replace to replace the Line Break characters with normal spaces 

[fitzj]

That fixed it Walt it had loads of them. The word document didn't have any before placing it. What causes this to happen?

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, fitzj said:

That fixed it Walt it had loads of them. The word document didn't have any before placing it. What causes this to happen?

Good to hear it's fixed.

If so you did was Place the document, and then Shift-click on the link icon, I don't know why you'd have gotten the hard line breaks, unless they were originally added to the Word document.

I'd need to see the document to be able to say.

[fitzj]

I also saved as a text and just pasted it in and then changed the fonts and that worked with left justify.

The word document did have the same issue but only on two lines which I fixed and then placed but that also gave the same problem.  It was incredible how many line breaks were in the word document. Yet in Word once fixed it looked perfect.