Getting Boris Title to keep still

This may be a stupid question, but I cannot get titles made in Boris Title 3D to stay in the same place. I've set up a style for lower thirds for a programme, and the justiufication inside Boris is set to left justified (in the pop-up editor window). If I go back into the editor, and type in a new name, the horizontal position of the text changes, whereas I want it to stay locked to it's left-hand edge.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Steve

Thanks that's done it!
Silly me - I was looking for something like "justify", word wrap is SO much more obvious
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