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Text Box - Vertical Text Alignment
Can someone tell me how to vertically center the text in a text box? It
always appears at the top left corner unless I hit return and manually nudge it down. Thanks |
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Text Box - Vertical Text Alignment
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:01 -0700, Glenn
wrote: Can someone tell me how to vertically center the text in a text box? It always appears at the top left corner unless I hit return and manually nudge it down. Thanks A text box doesn't have a vertical-centering setting. You can use returns, or put a value in the Space Before box in the Format Paragraph dialog for the first paragraph of the box to move it down. Both of these are trial-and-error methods. An alternative, more work but more accurate at centering, is to insert a one-cell table in the text box, set it to an exact row height slightly less than the height of the text box (to allow for the required paragraph mark below the table), and set vertically centered alignment in the table cell. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Text Box - Vertical Text Alignment
If you want the text accurately centered, you will need to make the table
cell fill the text box (the following empty paragraph will still be there but will be "overflow"). OTOH, mathematical vertical centering rarely looks "right," so having the empty paragraph to force the text a little higher would probably be desirable. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:01 -0700, Glenn wrote: Can someone tell me how to vertically center the text in a text box? It always appears at the top left corner unless I hit return and manually nudge it down. Thanks A text box doesn't have a vertical-centering setting. You can use returns, or put a value in the Space Before box in the Format Paragraph dialog for the first paragraph of the box to move it down. Both of these are trial-and-error methods. An alternative, more work but more accurate at centering, is to insert a one-cell table in the text box, set it to an exact row height slightly less than the height of the text box (to allow for the required paragraph mark below the table), and set vertically centered alignment in the table cell. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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