Too large spacing between words in Microsoft Word

Question

I got too large spacing between words in Word. What may be wrong in the case?

I tried this and it did not help.

Solution

There is nothing “wrong”; the program is behaving as designed. Your paragraph format is set to justified, and you have very little text before the URI, which Word will not break by default unless it contains a space or a hyphen. Set the paragraph justification to left for this paragraph, and the space will be closed up, leaving a short line before the URI.

Alternatively, insert a “hard return” (shift-enter) right before the URI, and that will collapse the space as above.

Comments

[AFH]

This happens in justified text when the next word (your URL) is nearly a line long and cannot be split. You can either insert a new-line before the URL or change the text to left-aligned.

[PProteus]

You can also use Ctrl+- to insert optional hyphens into Word. If the hyphen can be used to narrow the word spacing in a justified paragraph, Word will do so. Make sure you use the hyphen above your letters, not the one in the number pad though.

[Herman Toothrot]

What the difference between this and inserting spaces before the link?

[endrju]

The difference is that if you copy the modified link, there will be no space in it - the link will still work, and if you insert a space - this space will be copied and the link will be broken.