Text Alignment problem

[Max]

Pub 07 Win XP. Aligning one line of text re-aligns all text in the textbox.
If I want the first line left justified, the second centered and the third
right justified, I can't do it. Do I really need separate text boxes?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Use an enter after each line. The justified alignment won't work unless you
have a sentence that will fill the space. A short sentence won't justify
unless you use a shift+enter. Doing the shift+enter will justify all lines.
If you use a hard return after each line you can align left, right and
center, but not justify.

 

[Max]

Thanks for your response, but I have inserted a hard enter at the end of each
line. I have highlighted only the text I want to re-align, and I'm still
having the problem. When I select and re-align one line of text in a text
box, the entire contents of the text box goes to the new alignment. I've
been using Publisher for years and have never seen this happen before.

 

[Mary Sauer]

A hard return works for me. Turn on Special Characters (¶ on the toolbar) maybe
you will get a clue if there is formatting you are not seeing. Also the Design
Checker (Tools) can be helpful as well.

 

[Max]

Something isn't right. I created a new text box in a new document. I
entered 5 lines of text with a hard enter(shift+Enter) at the end of each
line. Then 5 lines of text with a regular enter. Then 5 lines with the hard
enter again. The special character key confims the enter type. Each group
of hard enter lines moves together when any line in the group is re-aligned.
Each line with a regular enter moves independently as it should. Design
Checker finds no problem, and no formatting has been applied to the document.

 

[Jaime]

You have it reversed, the Enter key alone is a hard enter (or paragraph),
Shift-Enter is a soft one (or sometimes called a line break).