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Loosen the text

Adjust tracking, letter or word spacing, or hyphenation to loosen the text

You can control line endings on all lines as well as widows and orphans by making your hyphenation zone smaller — forcing fewer words to hyphenate. Or, turn off automatic hyphenation and manually hyphenate words as needed.

You can use looser tracking, letter spacing, or character spacing to change line endings. You might want to apply these changes globally throughout your document or only in certain areas. Sometimes loosening the spacing on just one line or even one word can be enough to force a change.

Loosening text (putting more space between words and/or between characters) has an overall effect of making text take up more space in a document. It can be used (with care) to not only eliminate dangling words but to create more ragged line endings (more white space) and extend text on to a page or into a shorter column, making it more balanced.

Be aware that even when loosening text in only one paragraph, subsequent paragraphs may be affected simply by pushing them further down on the page. Always check the entire document even when applying changes to just a portion.

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