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Punctuation at the margin of a text frame can make the left or right sides of a column appear misaligned.
Fix that by turning on InDesign’s Optical Margin Alignment: Select the story, choose Story from the Type menu, and check the Optical Margin Alignment box in the Story panel.
To turn off optical margin alignment for certain types of paragraphs (bullets and numbered lists, for example), choose the Ignore Optical Margin option in your Indents and Spacing paragraph style options.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on July 19, 2016
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