Formatting paragraphs and the paragraph panel, Align and justify text – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Formatting paragraphs and the Paragraph panel
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Align and justify text
Indent and space paragraphs
Hanging punctuation for Roman fonts
Text composition methods
A paragraph is any range of text with a carriage return at the end. Use the Paragraph panel to set options that apply to entire paragraphs, such as
the alignment, indentation, and leading (line spacing). For point text, each line is a separate paragraph. For paragraph text, each paragraph can
have multiple lines, depending on the dimensions of the bounding box.
If the insertion point is in a paragraph or text is selected, changes you make in the Paragraph panel affect only paragraphs that are at least
partially selected. If no text is selected, changes you make in the Paragraph panel affect the selected text layers and the text layer’s selected
Source Text keyframes, if any exist. If no text is selected and no text layers are selected, the changes you make in the Paragraph panel become
the new defaults for the next text entry.
To display the Paragraph panel, choose Window > Paragraph; or, with a type tool selected, click the panel button
in the Tools panel.
To open the Character and Paragraph panels automatically when a type tool is active, select Auto-Open Panels in the Tools panel.
To reset values in the Paragraph panel to the default values, choose Reset Paragraph from the Paragraph panel menu.
You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button
in the upper-right tab of the panel.
Align and justify text
You can align text to one edge of a paragraph (left, center, or right for horizontal text; top, center, or bottom for vertical text) and justify text to both
edges of a paragraph. Alignment options are available for both point text and paragraph text; justification options are available only for paragraph
text.
To specify alignment, in the Paragraph panel, click an alignment option:
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Aligns horizontal text to the left, leaving the right edge of the paragraph ragged.
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Aligns horizontal text to the center, leaving both edges of the paragraph ragged.
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Aligns horizontal text to the right, leaving the left edge of the paragraph ragged.
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Aligns vertical text to the top, leaving the bottom edge of the paragraph ragged.
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Aligns vertical text to the center, leaving both the top and bottom edges of the paragraph ragged.
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Aligns vertical text to the bottom, leaving the top edge of the paragraph ragged.
To specify justification for paragraph text, in the Paragraph panel, click a justification option:
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Justifies all horizontal lines except the last, which is left-aligned.
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