Format Paragraph Justified but Aligned Centered

[AmyF718]

Hello I would like to see if it's possible to format paragraph text justified but instead of the last line aligned to the left, that the last line aligns to the center.

The issue is a lot of the headers of my company's test look best formatted in a centered alignment, but the body paragraphs have to justify because they are large text bodies and this looks the best.  A second best would be if Constant Contact implemented a way to add hyphenated paragraphs.  

Is there a code or possible way to change the justified paragraph to align centered?

If not, can we add that in the features request?

Thanks!

[William_A]

Hello @AmyF718 ,

The only way to really make this work, and how I've seen it done in other programs, is to simply make the last line its own standalone paragraph, and then center it. There wouldn't really be another way to code or otherwise just set an entire paragraph to be simulatenously justified and centered.

Keep in mind however that, depending on the settings and even what device is used to view the email on the receiving side, this may end up causing the paragraph to not be aligned as you set it up to be. 

[AmyF718]

Hey William,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I agree that this quick-fix leads to some issues.  I have to line break the last line to make sure the entire paragraph isn't formatted with it.  The way that these emails send out don't seem to view right between PC and phones.  When I do this fix it causes weird formatting on a phone, but looks fine on a PC.

Is there nothing else that can be done? 

Thanks again

[William_A · Accepted solution]

There's nothing else within the editor that can be done that would result in a justified-centered combination. To be frank, I haven't even seen this in most text editing programs even from major corporations. Maybe it's possible in certain specially-coded systems that only allow centered text?

Beyond that, I'd have no further insight, and at this time it wouldn't be something the devs are considering for future email editor updates.

The only potential workaround I see being available for the phone, would be to get a screencap of how you want the text to look, then using that instead of the text. However, with mobile reformatting, this would potentially cause the text to look different anyway, since they'd be pre-set visually as an image, and unable to readjust sizing with the rest of the normal text. 

[AmyF718]

Yes I understand.  We do advertisements that have some text heavy descriptions and the formatting is pretty sub-optimal on Constant Contact for that.  Might mess around with flattened rasterized versions of the non-body paragraphs and just live with the left-aligned justification.  This option is standard in most design software, but you're probably right that it's missing on editing programs of major corporations that do what Constant Contact does. 

Thanks for the help! Have a nice day.