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Vertical alignment and justification

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Vertical alignment and justification

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- [Instructor] All right, now the previous movie is where this chapter used to end, but there's been some recent developments including vertical alignment. And so notice that I've got a block of area type right here and you can tell it's area type because we're seeing the word area type up here in the control panel and were I to click on that option, I would bring up the area type options dialog box. Compare that to these guys right here, and so if I select this chapter eight text, I'm not seeing the word area type in the control panel even though I am seeing a text frame, that's just a function of the bounding box being turned on. And so for this feature to work, you have to be working with area type and so if you've got some point type, you need to go to the type menu and choose convert to area type. However, you also have to be working with multiple lines of text inside of a single text block. So I'm going to go ahead…

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