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405 When to use Balance Ragged Lines feature

405 When to use Balance Ragged Lines feature - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

405 When to use Balance Ragged Lines feature

- [Instructor] The other day, I saw a forum post from somebody asking what's the best way to create an even right rag, you know like make all this text not so rough, and a lot of great suggestions having to do with the hyphenation and justification settings. But somebody said use the command called Balance Ragged Lines, which is not what you'd want to use on body copy. That'll slow down your machine. That often makes dumb decisions. Don't use that guy. So instead, where are you supposed to use Balance Ragged Lines? On shorter bits of text like headlines and sub-heads, and it even works really well on pull quotes. That's what I want to show you, just some tips about how to work with Balance Ragged Lines and how to search for where it's used because that is a glitch that it does not automatically become apparent. So for example, take a look at this headline. Let's zoom in a bit. And this is kind of dumb, right, with the short line here. Now, what you could do is just use shift + return,…

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