Illustrator CC - Paragraph justify does not work

[nosrednanyved]

Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit

Illustrator CC 64 bit

Within Illustrator select text tool.

Type in a few lines of text with carriage return.

Select all the text in the paragraph

Go to paragrpah panel

Select the justify icon

NO results...the paragrpah is not justified

[Steve Fairbairn]

Are you using area text? If not you should.

You should not need to use carriage returns except at the ends of paragraphs.

[nosrednanyved]

All I'm trying to do is type a paragraph and then justify it.

i would expect this to work with the normal type tool. It does not.

Your suggestion of using the area text does not work because I get an error message "You must click on a non-compound, non-masking path to create text inside a path"

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Select Area Type Tool

[Steve Fairbairn · Accepted solution]

Draw a text box by click-dragging with the text tool. Then start typing.

You can’t expect type to justify if you use a carriage return at the end of each line.

The way you are doing things, each line is a paragraph.

[nosrednanyved]

Got it. thanks.

Great explanation.

[Steve Fairbairn]

O.k., pleased to be of assistance.

[tmargette]

This worked, but then how do you reduce the size of the box?

[pmbooks]

What about when the justify places the first word of a new sentence "The" at the end of a line? Most designers/copy editors would bump that word to the start of the following line. Simply draw a text box and type away forfeits too much control. Tracking (Character) per line can make up for this, but it's tedious. Oh well, sorry for the whine.

[Steve Fairbairn]

Tricky adjustments like the one you mention can often be done with a paragraph break using Justify All Lines for the paragraph before the break.

Reducing the size of the box is never a problem. Either do it with the bounding box or by direct selecting a side of the text box and dragging.