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lorrwill lorrwill is offline
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Default Can not center text

I should have been more specific. The text moves to the left when the page
size is changed - no longer in the center of the page. We also tried 11 X 17
and other pages sizes and got the same thing. All the settings read as center
but the center of the text is actually in the first third of the page.

"CyberTaz" wrote:

Am I missing something here?

Everything you mention refers to *horizontal* centering, but Letter & Legal
size don't differ in width, only height (8.5x11 as opposed to 8.5x14). What,
exactly, are you expecting to see happen? The *middle* of an 8.5" wide page
is the middle of an 8.5" wide page regardless of how tall the page may be.
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Bob Jones
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"lorrwill" wrote in message
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This is a very bizarre thing: the text is centered just fine in a letter
sized document, but change the page size to legal and the centering is
still
for letter.
I checked the styles and formatting and there is nothing to explain this.
Ditto with clearing all the formatting and then trying to center. I also
tried creating a center tab - also didn't work.

The page does have a page border but I also found nothing in those
settings
to explain why the document text will not recognize the new page size.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks.