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Aligning and spacing text

Aligning and spacing text - Publisher Tutorial

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Aligning and spacing text

- [Instructor] Let's see how to control the alignment and spacing of paragraphs of text in Affinity Publisher. In our file, we have four paragraphs of body text that are not all that readable because they're all jammed together. So we'll experiment with the settings in the paragraph panel to address that. First I'll zoom in and select all the body text. And at the top of the panel, we have buttons for setting the alignment. We can left align, which gives us ragged right line endings or reverse that by right aligning, or we can center a line. Or we have four kinds of justified text, and these all give you straight edges where the left and right sides of the paragraph align to the indents. The only difference is the last line, which can either be left aligned, centered, aligned right, or fully justified, which will add space between the words to fill out the line. I'll go back to left justified. And notice the variation…

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