> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tackstudio.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Power-ups for paragraph text.

Bizarrely, but completely on-brand for Adobe, there’s a bunch of stuff that you can do with paragraph (or box) text layers that is only accessible via the scripting API.

For some inexplicable reason, these super useful functions never found their way into the UI. Well, until we came along.

Designed to be the perfect companion to the native Paragraph panel, Paragraph Plus adds new functionality with a familiar interface that fits right into your workspace.

## Key features

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Vertical alignment" icon="text-align-start" href="/paragraph-plus/vertical-alignment">
    Horizontal alignment is old news. Align text vertically to the top, bottom, or center, or even stretch it to fill the full height of the box.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Auto-fit to height" icon="scan-text" href="/paragraph-plus/auto-fit-to-height">
    Choose how you’d like the box height to fit the text content. (Width, sadly, is off the table).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Box position" icon="move" href="/paragraph-plus/box-position-size-and-padding#box-position">
    The text box’s position relative to the layer’s anchor point. Move the box, and the anchor stays put.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Box size" icon="scaling" href="/paragraph-plus/box-position-size-and-padding#box-size">
    Set the exact width and height of a text box. No messing about with guides or other hacky workarounds.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Padding" icon="square-square" href="/paragraph-plus/box-position-size-and-padding#padding">
    Control the inner padding of the text box, with one caveat: the same value applies to all four sides.
  </Card>

  <Card title="First baseline alignment" icon="baseline" href="/paragraph-plus/first-baseline-alignment">
    Control where the first line of text starts. Choose a preset (like x-height or leading), or dial it in yourself.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Every control works live on whatever box text layer (or layers) you have selected, and every change is a normal, undoable step in your After Effects history.

## Requirements

* After Effects version 24.6 or later
* An active Paragraph Plus license, activated through the Tack Studio app (see [Installing tools](/the-app/installing-tools))