Paragraph Align Property in Essential Graphics Window

The 'left', 'right' 'centered' paragraph drop menu adjustments you see are very likely working with a single-line text later. It's alignment but only for a single line since AFAIK you can't change paragraph alignments automatically, via Expressions without a whole bunch of code.

Auto paragarph alignment is a huge miss cos it solves a lot of problems for developers.

Another option is to link a single sourceText property to different text layers, each with a different paragraph alignment. Then, depending on which alignment is chosen by the user, the correct/selected sourceText will be displayed. The downside to this is that you won't be able to change fonts. NOW, this is where it gets interesting - using the newly released font style Expressions, it seems to be possible to change alignment quite elegantly and yet be able to select fonts. The downside is it gets messy if you're developing for public access instead of a single organization, since for the latter, you will want to provide as many font options as possible.

My goto option for now is to use multiple Line Space Text Animator Properties so users can make x-position changes on a line by line basis in order to mimic a paragraph alignment change - use the x dimension of Line Space to change a line's x-position. Hope this makes sense.