Alignment
Sets the alignment of the paragraph relative to the margins of page.
Options
Set the alignment options for the current paragraph.
Start
Aligns the paragraph to the beginning of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the top.
Force Left
Aligns the paragraph to the left page margin.
Force Left/Top
For Asian languages, aligns the paragraph to the top left page margin.
End
Aligns the paragraph to the end of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the bottom.
Force Right
Aligns the paragraph to the right page margin.
Force Right/Bottom
For Asian languages, aligns the paragraph to the bottom right page margin.
Centered
Centers the contents of the paragraph on the page.
Justify
Aligns the paragraph to the left and to the right page margins.
Snap to text grid (if active)
Aligns the paragraph to a text grid. To activate the text grid, choose Format - Page Style - Text Grid.
Text-to-text
Alignment
Select an alignment option for oversized or undersized characters in the paragraph relative to the rest of the text in the paragraph.
Properties
Text direction
Specify the text direction for a paragraph that uses complex text layout (CTL). This feature is only available if complex text layout support is enabled.
Automatically set direction
Specifies to adjust the writing direction of the paragraph based on its content whenever the content is edited.
Justification
To prevent rivers - uneven white space that can appear between words in a justified paragraph - as well as excessive hyphenation, adjust the desired word spacing of a justified paragraph in relation to the width of the space character.
Word spacing
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Minimum: adjusts the minimum word spacing. Enter a number between 0% (no word spacing) and 250% (two and a half times the width of the space character).
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Desired: adjusts the desired word spacing. Enter a number between 0% and 250%.
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Maximum: adjusts the maximum word spacing. Enter a number between 0% and 250%