How to Balance Text Columns Automatically and with Baseline Grid

Bring balance to your InDesign spreads with this Text Frame Option.

Pariah Burke Pariah Burke

In this InDesign how-to video, Pariah Burke demonstrates how to fix uneven text frames for multi-column text. The trick is the Balance Columns check box in Object Text Frame Options. Then, Pariah shows how to clean up your columns by aligning the text to the document’s baseline grid.

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This article was last modified on August 25, 2026

This article was first published on August 25, 2026

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