I regularly use other applications for page layout and I have been asked to
do a newspaper-style layout in Publisher.

I can set text in text boxes to align top, centre or bottom -- but
apparently, not to justify. I cannot believe that Publisher 2007 is unable to
offer a basic operation such as this. Do I really have to justify each column
manually?

Right-click the text box, format text box, text box tab, columns.

To go to the next column to create uneven columns----ctrl+shift+return

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"Greiggy" <Greiggy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36B00A56-0737-455C-81F1-AC0EF9544790@microsoft.com...
>I regularly use other applications for page layout and I have been asked to
> do a newspaper-style layout in Publisher.
>
> I can set text in text boxes to align top, centre or bottom -- but
> apparently, not to justify. I cannot believe that Publisher 2007 is unable to
> offer a basic operation such as this. Do I really have to justify each column
> manually?