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# Alignment

Sets the alignment of the paragraph relative to the margins of page.

To access this command...

#### From the menu bar:

Choose Format - Paragraph - Alignment tab.

#### From the tabbed interface:

On the Home tab, choose one of the alignments buttons.

#### From the sidebar:

Choose View - Styles - open context menu of an entry and choose New/Edit Style - Alignment tab.

## Options

Set the alignment options for the current paragraph.

### Start

Aligns the paragraph to the beginning of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the top.

### Force Left

Aligns the paragraph to the left page margin.

### Force Left/Top

For Asian languages, aligns the paragraph to the top left page margin.

Align Start

### End

Aligns the paragraph to the end of the line in the reading direction. For top-to-bottom text, this means alignment to the bottom.

### Force Right

Aligns the paragraph to the right page margin.

### Force Right/Bottom

For Asian languages, aligns the paragraph to the bottom right page margin.

Align End

### Centered

Centers the contents of the paragraph on the page.

Align Center Horizontally Centered

### Justify

Aligns the paragraph to the left and to the right page margins.

Justified

### Last Line

Specify the alignment for the last line in the paragraph.

### Expand single word

If the last line of a justified paragraph consists of one word, the word is stretched to the width of the paragraph.

### Asian Language Support

These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in LibreOfficeDev - Preferences Tools - Options - Languages and Locales - General.

### Snap to text grid (if active)

Aligns the paragraph to a text grid. To activate the text grid, choose Format - Page Style - Text Grid.

## Text-to-text

### Alignment

Select an alignment option for oversized or undersized characters in the paragraph relative to the rest of the text in the paragraph.

## Properties

### Text direction

Specify the text direction for a paragraph that uses complex text layout (CTL). This feature is only available if complex text layout support is enabled.

### Automatically set direction

Specifies to adjust the writing direction of the paragraph based on its content whenever the content is edited.

## Justification

To prevent rivers - uneven white space that can appear between words in a justified paragraph - as well as excessive hyphenation, adjust the desired word spacing of a justified paragraph in relation to the width of the space character.

### Word spacing

- Minimum: adjusts the minimum word spacing. Enter a number between 0% (no word spacing) and 250% (two and a half times the width of the space character).

- Desired: adjusts the desired word spacing. Enter a number between 0% and 250%.

- Maximum: adjusts the maximum word spacing. Enter a number between 0% and 250%

### Paragraph Composer

Paragraph Composer balances word spacing across consecutive lines, addressing the fundamental limitations of the single-line composer used in word processors. It can remove excessive word spacing by shifting words from previous lines, but only if the new line breaks do not result in larger spacing than before. The paragraph composer can produce more readable text when the appropriate settings (limit, line width, microtypography and hyphenation) are applied.

### Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.

### Reset

Resets changes made to the current tab to those applicable when this dialog was opened.

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