The line spacing for your text may be greater than the spacing for your baseline guides. To correct this, do one of the following:

1. Increase the spacing for your baseline guides.

   How?

   1. On the Arrange menu, click Layout Guides, and then click the Baseline Guides tab.
   2. Under Horizontal Baseline, increase the Spacing value.
2. Decrease the line spacing for your text.

   How?

   1. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Indents and Spacing tab.
   2. Under Line spacing, decrease the value in the Between lines box.

The misaligned text may not be set to align to the baseline guides.

1. Select the misaligned text.
2. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Indents and Spacing tab.
3. Under Line spacing, select Align text to baseline guides.

Your headlines are often in a different font and size than your body text. Because of this, the tops of the headlines will normally be a little out of alignment with the tops of the body text. To align the tops of your headlines with the tops of your columns, adjust the baseline guides offset.

If your text is set to align to the baseline guides, the spacing between paragraphs will conform to the baseline guides spacing, not to the Before paragraphs and After paragraphs spacing you set in the Paragraph dialog box. If you entered values for spacing before and after your paragraphs, the beginning of the paragraph will skip one baseline from the end of the preceding paragraph. To prevent skipping a line between paragraphs, set the spacing before and spacing after values to 0.

The vertical alignment of the text box may be set to Middle or Bottom. These alignments override aligning to the baseline guides. If you want the text to align to the baseline guides, change the vertical alignment of the text box to Top.

If the line spacing of the text is set to the same value as the baseline guides spacing, the offset margin for the text box is causing the first line to skip. Do one of the following:

• Set the offset margins of the text box to 0.

  How?

  1. Right click on the text box, select Format text box, and then click the Text Box tab.
  2. In the Text box margins box, set the values for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom to 0.
• Decrease the line spacing of the text by one point.

  How?

  1. On the Format menu, click Paragraph, and then click the Indents and Spacing tab.
  2. In the Line spacing box, decrease the value in the Between lines box.
• Adjust the offset of the baseline guides to a value one point greater than the baseline guide spacing.

  How?

  1. On the Arrange menu, click Layout Guides, and then click the Baseline Guides tab.
  2. In the Horizontal Baseline box, increase the Offset value to one point greater than the Spacing value.

The bottom of your text box is aligned with a baseline guide. Resize the text box so that it extends below the baseline for the last line of the text box.

Note  The line spacing for text in Publisher is measured from just below the descenders of the characters up to the amount of line spacing specified for the text in the Paragraph dialog box. For example, if you have 12pt text with 14pt line spacing, the line spacing will extend from just below the descender up 14 points.

If the bottom of the text box rests on a baseline guide, text on the last line that is set to align to baseline guides will skip and move into a linked text box or overflow to avoid extending outside the text box.