Reply To: Fixing word spacing problem with no hyphenation

Michael, while searching for the proper terms I ran across this web page: https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1924553&seqNum=6

It’s an entire chapter from Real World Adobe InDesign CS6 (by some David Blatner, together with Olav Kvern and Robert Bringhurst), and it discusses the most important basics of working with paragraphs. Near the end there is a section “Multi-Line Composition”, which discusses your problem in detail – up to including the very same solutions as I did …

Do read it – that particular section, but preferable the entire article. And if you like, buy it! there are 840 more such pages in the entire book.