If you really have to make it fit . . .

Sometimes the text just doesn’t fit and you have to cheat a little here and there to force it into the space. For instance, you might want to bring the short last word of a column up to the line above, or make a one-line statement fit on one line, or send a couple of words to the last line. Here are a few extra tricks you can use, and probably no one in the entire world will notice (which is kind of sad).

• If your text frame is flush left, widen or narrow it just a hair. Or two.

• To force one line that’s just a little too long into one line, justify it.

If that doesn’t work, select the entire line and use the tracking keyboard shortcut to take out wee bits of space.

Or do both of the above.

• If you have many pages and you want to make everything just a tiny bit shorter or a tiny bit longer, remove something like one-quarter or one-half of a point out of the leading, or add a tiny bit.