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Formatting text | 427
To align text horizontally
1 Do one of the following:
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Using the Text tool , select the text that you want to align.
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Using the Pick tool , click an artistic text object or a text frame whose content you want to align.
If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object properties.
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In the Object properties docker, click the Paragraph button to display the paragraph-related options.
3 In the Paragraph area of the Object properties docker, click one of the following buttons:
• No horizontal alignment — applies the default alignment setting
• Align left — aligns text with the left side of the text frame or the bounding box of artistic text
• Center — centers text within the text frame
• Align right — aligns text with the right side of the text frame and the bounding box of artistic text
• Full justify — aligns text, with the exception of the last line, with the left and right sides of the text frame
• Force justify — aligns text, including the last line, with the left and right sides of the text frame
You can also align text horizontally by clicking the Horizontal alignment button on the property bar and choosing an alignment style
from the list box. The property bar displays an icon that corresponds to the current alignment style.
You can align multiple paragraphs in a text frame by selecting them with the Text tool and choosing an alignment style.
To align paragraph text vertically
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Using the Pick tool , click a text frame.
If the Object properties docker is not open, click Window Dockers Object properties.
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In the Object properties docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options.
3 In the Frame area of the Object properties docker, choose an alignment option from the Vertical alignment list box.
To align text with an object
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Using the Pick tool , hold down Shift, click the text object, and then click the object.
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Click Object Align and distribute Align and distribute.
3 In the Text area, click one of the following buttons:
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First line baseline — uses the baseline of the first line of text to align the objects
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Last line baseline — uses the baseline of the last line of text to align the objects
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Bounding box — aligns text with its bounding box
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In the Align objects to area, click the Active objects button .
5 In the Align area, click one of the following buttons to use an object edge or center for aligning.
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Align left — to align the left edges of objects
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Align center horizontally — to align object centers along a vertical axis
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Align right — to align the right edges of objects