Soft break should force justify text

Hello
Got a bit of a problem in Pages.
I'm using a 2 column text block with justified text.
I want to insert a soft break, which would supposedly force justify my text to the right.
I hit Shift+Enter and all i get is a normal paragraph break…
Any clues on how to fix this?
i've tried to export my document to Word and change it there, but even in Word it doesn't work… I'm baffled.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Nuno

Nuno,
I'm curious where in the Pages documentaton it describes the behavior you are calling a bug. In my opinion, t works the way it was designed to work. You can call it a missing feature if you wish, but it doesn't look like a bug to me.
Jerry

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