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Hi there! In this video we’ll be talking
about using justification with our paragraph

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in InDesign, so let’s get started.

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For justification, if you place your cursor
to one of the paragraphs, and then go to the

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paragraph formatting controls, and click the
justification button, it will apply justification

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to only that paragraph, so to apply justification
to the entire text box, select the entire

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text, and then hit the justification button.

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Since justification pushes and pulls letters,
or words, by adjusting spaces in between,

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you’ll find certain lines with some ugly
spaces, so although from both sides, the paragraphs

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look neat, but the gaps within, make them
look weird.

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InDesign does offer options to control these
spaces to some extent, and for that, you’ll

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need to select the text, and then go to the
burger menu on the top right corner of the

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toolbar above, and select ‘justification.’

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Now from the popup menu, try to adjust the
letter spacing, so if I enter -2 for minimum,

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you’ll find the text adjusting itself. Let’s
now add 3 percent for maximum, and see the

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result. You will find some sort of movement
in the text. Let’s do a -5 in the minimum

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letter spacing, and you’ll find a lot of
spaces in between have gone, but at the same

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time, you’ll find some of the lines with
very tight spaces. So basically, you’ll

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have to strike a balance here, and decide
how much of weird spaces, or tight spaces

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in your lines, you are happy with, and I’m
sure the letter spacing option will make your

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paragraphs look a lot better than the normal
justification settings. Another thing to keep

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in mind is to set the ‘composer’ setting
to ‘Adobe Paragraph Composer’, as it adjusts

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letter spacing and word spacing to achieve
the best look for the paragraph as a whole.

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There is another setting that shows you visually,
the degree of violation your justification

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settings, have led your paragraphs to, and
for that you need to go to ‘preferences’,

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and then ‘composition.’ In here you’ll
find ‘H & J Violations’, which means hyphenation

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and justification violations. If you check
the box, and hit okay, you will find some

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of your text highlighted with various intensity
of yellow color. The more intense the color,

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the bigger is the violation. Although it doesn’t
affect the text, or you, as a composer, but

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it’s just a way of InDesign telling you
how much of a change your justification settings

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have brought about. To deactivate this visual
setting, go back to preferences, and then

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composition, and uncheck the ‘H & J Violations’
box, and the highlighter shall be gone.

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Alright guys! That concludes our session,
and I’m going to see you in the next one,

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in just a bit. Good bye!