Justify text feature looks terrible and unprofessional- why does it make huge spaces

[John_Warden]

For paragraphs, there are four choices; right, left, center or justification. 

Why does the justify feature create huge gaps instead of distributing the spacing evenly in each paragraph? The justify feature does not work the right way and does not look professional. This does not occur in any software such as Word, Google, etc. Is there a way around this? Right, left, or center is not appropriate and justify looks wrong.

Please advise how to work around or if another feature is available, thank you. 

[William_A · Accepted solution]

Hello @John_Warden ,

That’s just how justify alignment works—it spaces out words so that they’ll fit on their line in the full margins of space. This is how it works for all text formatting programs, newspapers, and other systems that use that alignment. It's not meant to make all spaces the same on each line—it’s meant to fit all the words it can on each line, with respect to the length of the words. This will sometimes result in very large spaces if there’s too big of singular words on a single line, similar to how other justifications will have massive spaces on the ends of their lines for the same reasons. You can even see this shown on various sites that provide info on alignments, such as the Wikipedia article. 

If you don't want massive spaces in between words, I’d advise using different wording to achieve space reduction on those lines. You can also change the text size, boldness, or even font if those are making your words too big and heavy to fit on the lines you want them to. You can widen a section’s margins so more words can fit on a single line within a text block. Just keep in mind that there’s some automatic padding for all text blocks. If you have multiple columns of text, then this padding will compound and change how many words can fit per line as well. 

[CarolinaC49]

Justify text does not work when I am working with the email tool. Nothing happens when I tried to use it. 

[William_A]

Hello @CarolinaC49 ,

Did you set up the text block to be justified, or one specific section? Are you sure your current text isn't just able to fit in their lines with minimal, noticeable difference between normal left alignment vs justified?

[CambridgeHouse]

I am experiencing this issue, as well—definitely a glitch in the software, as the left, right, and center options all change the text, whereas the justify results in no change. (Tried on multiple blocks and areas of text.) There would be a significant change to the text, so I am certain I would notice a difference once applied.

[William_A]

Hello @CambridgeHouse ,

I checked your latest draft, and the top several text blocks are definitely set to justified, and do show a noticeable difference between the left, right, justified, and centered alignments. 

Left alignment ^^^

Right alignment ^^^

Justified alignment ^^^

Center alignment ^^^

There is also a noticeable difference when applied to your other action blocks as well. Currently your opener and house study are set to justified, and your house impact is set to left aligned for the text and right aligned for the quoted name. I also checked your parent email, and it was set to left alignment and showed noticeable differences when switched to right, justified, and center.

Based on what I've found in your account's emails, there isn't an issue, the text is just filling up the sections enough that you aren't noticing a particularly egregious difference for some sections. If you need to check if your text is properly aligning, highlight it and see if the behavior of the highlight matches up with the examples I have above. Left, right and center, will stop at the last word of a line, while justified should appear to be a solid block of highlighting until the last line (if it doesn't go to the edge).