Publisher does allow you to specify the vertical alignment in text boxes. If
you have ever used Publisher, that's probably what you were thinking about.
Aside from that, you can add Space Before to the first paragraph in the
text box, just "eyeballing" the text and centering it visually, but if you
want an automatic method, you're pretty much reduced to the one-cell table
solution that you have rejected (and that a couple of other respondents have
advocated).
As Jay has indicated, you can actually use a table cell *instead of* a text
box, and this is actually superior because text in a text box is invisible
to Word in many ways, and text in a table is more accessible.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Laura4363" wrote in message
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Is there really no simple way to vertically align text in a text box in
Word?
I've seen one answer that said you have to create a 1 cell table instead
but
surely there must be a simple way of doing it? In fact I'm sure I did it
once before, ages ago, but I really can't find a way of doing it now!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!