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Typography

Last updated 6/6/2015

Align or justify text

Text can be aligned with one or both edges (or insets) of a text frame. Text is said to be justified when it is aligned with

both edges. You can choose to justify all text in a paragraph excluding the last line (Justify Left or Justify Right), or you

can justify text in a paragraph including the last line (Justify All). When you have only a few characters on the last line,

you may want to use a special end-of-story character and create a flush space.

Note: When you justify all lines of text and you are using the Adobe Paragraph Composer, InDesign shifts text to ensure

that the paragraph has consistent text density and is visually appealing. You can fine-tune spacing in justified text.

When you set center or justify for text in a frame grid, the text will no longer align exactly with the grid. You can also

specify paragraph alignment for all the paragraphs in the frame grid.

1 Select text.

2 Click one of the Alignment buttons (Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, Left Justify, Center Justify, Right Justify

and Full Justify) in the Paragraph panel or Control panel.

3 (Optional) Click Align Towards Spine or Align Away From Spine.

When you apply Align Towards Spine to a paragraph, text on a left-hand page is right-aligned, but when the same

text flows onto (or if the frame is moved to) a right-hand page, it becomes left aligned. Similarly, when you apply

Align Away From Spine to a paragraph, text on a left-hand page is left aligned, while text on a right-hand page is

right aligned.

In vertical frames, aligning to or away from the spine has no effect, since text alignment is parallel to the spine

direction.

If you want the left side of a line of text to be left-aligned and the right side to be right-aligned, position the insertion

point where you want to right-align the text, press Tab, and then right-align the rest of the line.

Align paragraphs to a baseline grid

The baseline grid represents the leading for body text in a document. You can use multiples of this leading value for all

elements of the page to ensure that text always lines up between columns and from page to page. For example, if the

body text in your document has 12-point leading, you could give your heading text 18-point leading and add 6 points

of space before the paragraphs that follow the headings.

Using a baseline grid ensures consistency in the location of text elements on a page. You can adjust the leading for the

paragraph to ensure that its baselines align to the page’s underlying grid. This is useful if you want the baselines of text

in multiple columns or adjacent text frames to align. Change settings for the baseline grid by using the Grids section of

the Preferences dialog box.

You can also align only the first line of a paragraph to the baseline grid, allowing the rest of the lines to follow the

specified leading values.

To view the baseline grid, choose View > Grids & Guides > Show Baseline Grid.

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