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                    Align or justify text vertically within a text frame
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                <div><div class="section"><p>You
can align or distribute lines of text in a frame along its vertical
axis to help keep type vertically consistent among frames and their columns.</p>
<p>You can align text to the top, center,
or bottom of the frame using each paragraph’s leading and paragraph
spacing values. You can also justify text vertically, which evenly
spaces lines regardless of their leading and paragraph spacing values.</p>
<p><div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="op_15" src="images/op_15.png" /><div class="figdesc">Bottom vertical alignment (left) and vertical justification
(right)</div><br /></div></p>
<p>Vertical
text alignment and justification is calculated from the baseline
positions of each line of text in the frame. Keep the following
in mind as you adjust vertical alignment:</p>
<ul><li><p>The top of the
frame is defined as the baseline of the first line of top-aligned text.
The First Baseline Offset option in the Text Frame Options dialog
box affects this value.</p>
</li>
<li><p>The bottom of
the frame is defined as the baseline of the last line of bottom-aligned
text. Footnote text is not justified.</p>
</li>
<li><p>When the Align
to Baseline Grid option is applied to paragraphs with Top, Center,
or Bottom alignment, all lines will be aligned to the baseline grid.
With the Justified option, only the first and last lines will be
aligned to the baseline grid.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If you adjust
a text frame’s Top or Bottom Inset values in the Text Frame Options
dialog box, you change the location of the first or last baseline, respectively.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Vertical justification
isn’t applied to text that takes on a non-rectangular shape due
to influences such as text frame shape, text wrap, or corner effects.
In these cases, top alignment is applied. When a corner effect is
applied, vertical justification is possible if you make the text
area rectangular by increasing the Inset value in the Text Frame
Options dialog box, relative to the Size value in the Corner Options
dialog box.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li><p>With the Selection tool, select a text
frame.</p>
</li>
<li><p>With the Type tool&#160;<img src="images/P_TypeHoriz_Lg_N.png" />, click
in a text frame.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose Object&#160;&gt; Text Frame Options.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Vertical Justification section of the Text Frame
Options dialog box, choose one of the following options in the Align
menu:</span><ul><li><p>To vertically align text down from the
top of the frame, choose Top. (This is the default setting.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>To center lines of text in the frame, choose Center.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To vertically align lines of text up from the bottom
of the frame, choose Bottom.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To evenly distribute lines of text vertically between
the top and bottom of the frame, choose Justify.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>If you choose Justify and you want to prevent the leading
value from becoming disproportionately larger than the paragraph
spacing value, specify a Paragraph Spacing Limit value. The space
between paragraphs is expanded up to the value you specify; if the
text still doesn’t fill the frame, the space between lines is adjusted
until the frame is filled. The paragraph spacing limit value is
applied in addition to the Space Before or Space After values entered on
the Paragraph panel. </span> <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="op_16" src="images/op_16.png" /><div class="figdesc">Paragraph spacing limit set to zero (left) and 1 pica (right)</div><br /></div><div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>Be
careful about vertically justifying multi-column text frames. If
the last column contains only a few lines, too much white space
may appear between the lines.</div>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click&#160;OK.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />An easy way to adjust the Paragraph Spacing
Limit value is to select Preview, and then click the up or down
arrow next to the Paragraph Spacing Limit value until paragraph
spacing appears to be balanced with leading.</div></div>
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