Change paragraph alignment

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017 This topic last edited on: 18/Mar/2016, at 12:04

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To change the paragraph alignment

Click in the current paragraph, or highlight more paragraphs and then do one of the following:

•On the Type menu, point to Align and then select what you want.

•On the Formatting toolbar, click the alignment icons.

•Press the appropriate keys.

Summary of paragraph alignment methods

Align	Icon	Keys	Palette: paragr. align.	Palette: last line align.
All left		SHIFT+CTRL+L	Left	Left
All right		SHIFT+CTRL+R	Right	Right
All centred		SHIFT+CTRL+C	Centred	Centred
All justified, but the last line left		SHIFT+CTRL+J	Justified	Left
All justified (also the last line)		SHIFT+CTRL+O	Justified	Justified

To change the paragraph alignment on the Paragraph palette

1.	On the Type menu, point to Paragraph, and then click Paragraph Palette.

2.	On the General tab, in the Paragraph alignment box select the alignment for all the paragraph lines but the last one.

3.	In the Last line alignment box, select the alignment for the last line of text.

4.	Select or clear the Use with end line box (this setting drives the alignment behavior when you insert a soft return in the text. When ticked, it behaves in the same way as for hard-return.

Examples of paragraph alignment

All justified but the last line left

All justified but the last line centred

All justified