Soft returns

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October 27, 2021
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Please refer to 01 Screen Shot and 02 Screen Shot, attached.

I have an author's quotation made up of 3 small paragraphs. In 01 I used my paragraph style for quotations. However, I don't want a blank line between the paragraphs so I used a soft return and got what is shown in 02, which is not what I want. The paragraph style has justification set to Left Justify.

How do I modify the style to eliminate the 3 words spreading out over the whole line?

Thanks in advance.

How to

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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

If you do not want to spread the words, don't use shift-return. work with 2 paragraph styles and use return.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

You have the paragraph style set to Justify All Lines

You need to choose the other one - Justify with last line aligned left

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

In this case, it would make no difference. As the forced return will stretch all words to justify this line.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

100% correct - I realised my error after posting.

Thanks for clarifying.

Willi Adelberger

Correct answer

Community Expert

If you do not want to spread the words, don't use shift-return. work with 2 paragraph styles and use return.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @Michael J B:

Check the spacing values for the quote paragraphs. Note that you are using a baseline grid, so the spacing value (probably space below) will need to be set to 0 for the next paragraph to align to the next grid line.