Changing the horizontal alignment of text in text frames

You can change the horizontal alignment of individual paragraphs in text frames, independently of the corresponding paragraph style. You can do this on page templates, which changes the alignment of the selected text on all pages that use the page template, and on individual pages, which only changes the alignment of the selected text on that page.

Prerequisite

  • Graphic Editing or Frames is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • If you want to change the horizontal alignment of text on a page template, you have opened the page template in the page template editor.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, double-click a text frame to open the text editor for that frame.
    Tip

    When Frames Frames button is selected in the Engrave toolbox, you can also select text frames and press Return.

  2. Select the text in the text frame whose horizontal alignment you want to change.
    Tip

    Each paragraph in the same text frame can have a different horizontal alignment.

  3. Choose the horizontal alignment you want in the text editor.
  4. Press Esc or Ctrl/Cmd-Return to close the text editor.

Result

The horizontal alignment of the selected text is changed.

Note

Because this overrides the default horizontal alignment of the corresponding paragraph style, any changes you later make to the horizontal alignment of the paragraph style are not applied to the overridden text.