How to align all vertices so that they would be lying on one plane?

Question

Sometime faces have vertices that not aligned in one plane. For example if I have this (face should be flat here):

It rather should be like that:

Answer 1

Couple of ways you could do this:

Method 1

• Select your face
• Change the 'Transform Orientation' to 'Normal'
• Hit 'S' to scale
• Double-hit 'Z' to scale along the face's normal
• Type 0
• Hit enter

Method 2

• Add a new plane (single face)

• Rotate it as desired to define your belonged normal axis

• Again change your Transformation Orientation to Normal

• Create your custom orientation in the right-3dview-panel

• Rename it and use it in the same way as 'Method 1'

Answer 2

If you want to make it flat horizontally set the 3D cursor as a pivot point, select the vertex which is lying on a grid floor and snap the cursor to it (Shift+S-->Cursor to Selected) .Then select the non aligned one and press S,Z,0.

If you want do it like in your second picture duplicate the non alligned edge in Edit Mode and snap it to the opposite part of a plane (click the magnet icon, snap element type- Vertex), then merge the vertices as pictured below (Alt+M-->At Last). Finally select the whole mesh and remove doubles (W-->Remove Doubles).