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Buy now. User Guide Cancel. Align or justify text. Select text. Align paragraphs to a baseline grid. Align paragraphs to the baseline grid. Align only the first line to the baseline grid. Select the paragraphs you want to align. Create balanced headline text. Click in the paragraph you want to balance.

This feature takes effect only when the Adobe Paragraph Composer is selected. Create paragraphs that span or split columns. You can also split a paragraph into multiple columns within the same text frame.

Span a paragraph across columns. Place the insertion point inside the paragraph. You can also make this feature part of a paragraph style, such as a heading style.

Choose Span Columns from the Control panel menu or a Paragraph panel menu. Choose Span Columns from the Paragraph Layout menu.

Split a paragraph into columns. Choose Split Columns from the Paragraph Layout menu. Specify the following options, and then click OK:. Select the Fill box and then click a color for your object. To add a border to your object, select the Stroke box on InDesign's Swatches panel and click a color for your object's border.

To import text, create a text frame using your Text tool, which is located in InDesign's Tools panel. With your Text tool still selected, click within the text frame and begin typing your text. A loaded cursor will appear. Move your mouse to the location where you want your text to appear and click to place the text. Large amounts of text may need to be threaded across multiple text frames. Do this by clicking the red plus sign in the right, bottom corner of your text frame, navigating to the new page or column where you want to place your text and clicking your mouse.

Repeat this step until all your text is placed. At the bottom of the panel select whether the objects will be aligned based on the selection, the margins, the page or the spread. Click the button that corresponds with the type of alignment you desire: top, bottom, right, left or middle.

Method 1. Select the text frames that contain the text you wish to align. You may do this with either the Select tool or Type tool. To align text vertically from the top of the text frame, select Top. To align text from the center of the text frame, select Center.

To align text vertically from the bottom of the text frame, select Bottom. To distribute text evenly from the top to the bottom of the text frame, select Justify. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. In Response To Johnchawaii. You must have inadvertently clicked it. Post Reply. Preview Exit Preview. You must be signed in to add attachments. Learn and Support. Adobe InDesign User Guide. Adobe InDesign Learn and Support.

Get Started with InDesign. Vertical distribution buttons C. Use Spacing distribution D. Horizontal alignment buttons E. Horizontal distribution buttons F.

Alignment location options. You can use the Align panel to align or space selected objects horizontally or vertically to the selection, margins, page, or spread. To show or hide additional panel options, choose Show Options or Hide Options from the panel menu. Creates even spacing between the centers of each object B. Keeps the overall width the same as before the transformation. To set the space between objects, either center to center or edge to matching edge, select Use Spacing under Distribute Objects, and then type the amount of space you want to apply.

Click a button to distribute the selected objects along their horizontal or vertical axes. Spaces the objects evenly from their centers by a specified value B. Changes the overall width of the objects as a whole.

Creates spaces of a specified value between each object B.