Created attachment 51784 [details] Sample document. Open the attachment. Adjust the font size until the last line of the paragraph consists of the single word 'selected.' Select the last paragraph. Format->Paragraph... menu option. Alignment tab. Options...Justified Expand single word (check) OK The single word 'selected' should be expanded to span the line. Instead, it is left-aligned.
User error! The last word of the paragraph is left aligned because user selected that in menu 'Format -> Paragraph -> Alignment - Las line. But I agree, UI is a little worrying. Option "Expand Single word" only is available with radio button alignment option "Justified" selected, for 3 others it's geeyed / inacitive. It should be inactive in the same way for 'Last Line' selection "Centered" and "Left", only be active for "Justified". I modify report. Very old issue, already visible in OOo 1.1.4 @David: Help is not optimum! Current text for Option Last Line / Expand single word: "If the last line of a justified paragraph consists of one word, the word is stretched to the width of the paragraph." Should be " ... stretched to the width of the paragraph if las line alignment "Justified" is selected. IMHO manual "Writer Guide" also under heading "Settings on the Alignment page" "Expand single word" explication is not clear, an explicit explication that that function only is active for last line "Justified" is missing (although yo can reason here that that might be meant). My suggestion: Modify "then whenever the last line of a justified paragraph consists of a single word ..." to "then whenever the last "Justified" line of a justified paragraph consists of a single word ..." @Cédric: Please feel free to reassign (or reset Assignee to default) if it’s not your area or if provided information is not sufficient. Please set Status to ASSIGNED if you accept this Bug.
@Rainer: OK, I have bookmarked this for attention and will also post the bug to the documentation ML.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
in LibO 3.6.0 master problem remains My be would be better to move this "Expand single option" to drop-down "Last line" as 4-th option?
Patch waiting review: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/10656/
Joren De Cuyper committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ff12ec8ea00530768d5e07dcc9ab200ce7f54ef6 fdo#41350 "Expand Single Word" only shown active for "Last line: Justified" The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.