Reply To: Paragraph flow problem

It is not a problem, it’s a feature.

InDesign breaks the lines so that all line ends are as even as possible. For example, if the “you” at the 3rd line is moved to the end of the 2nd line, then the 3rd line would be much shorter than the others – the word “impertinence” at the next line is too long to fit at that line. You obviously have disabled hyphenation, so all InDesign can do is shuffle words around until no single line sticks in or out.

That is exactly what the “Full Paragraph Composer” is supposed to do. This is unhyphenated, left-aligned text, but it works the same with hyphenated and justified text (in that case, the target is the same: “equalizing line length” is then interpreted as “equalizing space widths”).

If you don’t want this and prefer highly uneven line lengths, select the Single Line Composer in the Justification settings of this text. That will fill lines one line at a time, without checking for more pleasing alternatives.