I am struggling to find a way of convincing Corel Draw 13 that it should not force the last line of a 'full justified' paragraph into being obviously stretched to the right-hand side.  When this happens I get no difference in response between 'Full' and 'Force', but it doesn't happen every time.  The only common factor seems to be that it sometimes happens to the first of a group of paragraphs and never, as yet, to later paras.

Is there a concealed 'third way' somewhere that guarantees short final lines will end before the right-hand edge?  Plain old-fashioned 'justify' would do me nicely, never mind 'full' and 'force'.

 Maybe your "paragraph" is not a paragraph; it does not end with a "Paragraph Mark" <Enter>.

I think there's a hidden, Non-Printing, character (from the source of the text) at the end of that line, which starts a "new line" but not a "new paragraph". So CorelDRAW will not consider the line as the Last, and will full justify it, and the lines will look like a Force Justified paragraph.

Resolution

1. Press <Enter> at the end of the line.
2. (Delete any unwanted New Line characters. See the note below).

Note

You can show "Non-Printing Characters" (Enter, New Line, Space, Tab…)

1. Click Tools >> Options
2. Click Text under Workspace
3. Check the "Show Non-Printing Characters"

Absolutely right, Ahmad.  I am used to the ease of clicking on the 'end of paragraph' icon in Word, but good old Corel has this rather more obscure way of doing it.

Have, as you suggested, made sure that there is a carriage return / linefeed at the end of the para and it worked like magic!

Many thanks,

GeoffO

 this did not work for me I still getting crfamp word spacing on the last line of full justy paragraph..I resorted to addin gdouble space between each of the owrds of the last line but this si just a tad to much space in comparision to the rest of the paragrah..this really suck....even in CD X4 no hope in hell...after all these years you'd thnk Corel would have gotten this right!

Is there any non-printing character at the end of the last line?

Have you done what Ahmad suggested above?

If it still doesn't work, I suggest you post a snapshot/printscreen of your paragraph with the Non-Printing Characters shown.