[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Jean-Guy says, there's no way to do this other than pretty much manually
and individually. You can define a Poetry style that has an indent that will
work for lines of an average length, but you'll still have to adjust it for
each poem (most easily done by dragging the indent marker on the ruler). To
facilitate this, make sure to use a line break at the end of each verse,
with paragraph breaks only between stanzas. This keeps each stanza in a
single paragraph, making indent formatting easier and also allowing you to
use Space Before/After to insert extra space between stanzas.

And congratulations on doing this correctly. I'm so tired of seeing poetry
centered on the page using Center alignment, which makes for very difficult
reading.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Silfver" wrote in message
...
I want to place text centered in book pages, but still want to have the
bodytext left aligned in the middle of the pages.

Not centered row by row. Rather centered vers by vers; text by text; poem
by
poem...

It is for layout of poem texts with varying row-lengths of the verses

/Silfver