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Paragraph alignment

Paragraph alignment - Illustrator Tutorial

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Paragraph alignment

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- [Instructor] All right, our type looks like this. We want it to look like this. So we've still got a fair amount of work to do. In this movie, I'll show you how to change the paragraph alignment. In other words, how to create text that is flush left, as it is now, or justified, or what have you. But first I need to divide this paragraph into a bunch of smaller paragraphs. And so I'm going to double-click inside the text with my black arrow tool to automatically switch to the type tool and position my blinking insertion marker. And so what I want to do is get rid of the space between to and no, and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to create a carriage return. And then I'll click before this open parenthesis and I'll get rid of the space and press the Enter key. Then I'll click before the word is, get rid of the space and press Enter or Return. And then I'm going to click in front of this word is right…

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