Quick Question......

[pancake]

Within a text box, is it possible to right align some text, and then on the same line left align other text... For example on one text box can you have:

Word A Word B
Word C Word D
Word E Word F

But have words A, C, E left aligned and B, D, F right aligned within the same text box?

 

[Steve]

Sure.
Type it all out and then select individual text and set the alignment left, right, or center.

 

[pancake]

When I do that it just moves the whole line, not the selected text only. I'm using adobe elements 9 if that matters.

 

[Steve]

I guess I misunderstood.
Yes my answer will move a whole line.
You may need to just add spaces to get what you want.

 

[pancake]

I guess I misunderstood.
Yes my answer will move a whole line.
You may need to just add spaces to get what you want.

Yeah, but the only problem with that is that sometimes spaces don't match up exactly from line to line depending on the length of the words and it looks bad. Is there a way to add half spaces or something like that to get it more precisely lined up from line to line?

 

[Steve]

Sorry my friend I don't know.
Adding Elements 9 into the mix makes it more complicated.

I only have CS3 & Cs5 installed
Sorry

 

[Hoogle]

Not sure about elements but this is how I would approach it in cs5
have each word on a seperate text layer
select the square marquee tool and draw out the box you want it alligned to on an empty layer
then select the move tool and toggle these shortcuts with the text layers selected that you want to allign left
then select the text layers you want to allign right and toggle these controls



I am sure elements will have some kind of allignment controls for you to use

 

[ibclare]

If you don't have a lot of text to organize you can do it manually, more or less. two separate text boxes, each aligned separately, then lined up with guidelines. Guess this is pretty obvious advice and may not fit into what you need to do. If it does, great.