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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
I've only been using PCs since 1983, and d'ya think I can find Word
97's method via the menu to horizontally center text? I see nothing on its Format menu. Unbelievably, even the context menu (i.e. highlight the text to be centered, then right-click or press Shift-F10) has no context- sensitive formatting. (Nor--you guessed--does the Format menu). Even Excel, which is a poor excuse for a word processor, has a text Alignment dialog, for Chrissake. Ya'd better answer me fast...I'm itching to dump on the Microsoft propeller-heads again. Yeah, I know, I oughta upgrade to a later Word. (Provided it's fixed.) Thanks much. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
Tough night? Word 97? There are icons on the task bar for Left-align,
Center, Right-align and Justify. The respective keyboard shortcuts are CTRL+L, CTRL+E, CTRL+R, and CRTL+J. If the icons don't appear, right click on the task bar and click on the appropriate option. Where in the world did you ever get the notion that Excel is a Word processor? Ranting is fun... wrote in message oups.com... I've only been using PCs since 1983, and d'ya think I can find Word 97's method via the menu to horizontally center text? I see nothing on its Format menu. Unbelievably, even the context menu (i.e. highlight the text to be centered, then right-click or press Shift-F10) has no context- sensitive formatting. (Nor--you guessed--does the Format menu). Even Excel, which is a poor excuse for a word processor, has a text Alignment dialog, for Chrissake. Ya'd better answer me fast...I'm itching to dump on the Microsoft propeller-heads again. Yeah, I know, I oughta upgrade to a later Word. (Provided it's fixed.) Thanks much. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
Alignment is an attribute of a paragraph. Therefore, you select Paragraph
from the Format menu. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote in message oups.com... I've only been using PCs since 1983, and d'ya think I can find Word 97's method via the menu to horizontally center text? I see nothing on its Format menu. Unbelievably, even the context menu (i.e. highlight the text to be centered, then right-click or press Shift-F10) has no context- sensitive formatting. (Nor--you guessed--does the Format menu). Even Excel, which is a poor excuse for a word processor, has a text Alignment dialog, for Chrissake. Ya'd better answer me fast...I'm itching to dump on the Microsoft propeller-heads again. Yeah, I know, I oughta upgrade to a later Word. (Provided it's fixed.) Thanks much. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
Ctrl+E will center a paragraph in any version, whether it's really Word 97
or 2007. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message oups.com... I've only been using PCs since 1983, and d'ya think I can find Word 97's method via the menu to horizontally center text? I see nothing on its Format menu. Unbelievably, even the context menu (i.e. highlight the text to be centered, then right-click or press Shift-F10) has no context- sensitive formatting. (Nor--you guessed--does the Format menu). Even Excel, which is a poor excuse for a word processor, has a text Alignment dialog, for Chrissake. Ya'd better answer me fast...I'm itching to dump on the Microsoft propeller-heads again. Yeah, I know, I oughta upgrade to a later Word. (Provided it's fixed.) Thanks much. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
Word uses the same icon for centering text as you see in Excel on the
Formatting toolbar and both applications use the same order for the initial commands on the Formatting toolbar. (Granted Word includes the Styles combo box at the beginning but after that first 8 are identical. Also note Excel doesn't have a dedicated Alignment dialog box, it's on a tab in the Format/Cells dialog box which isn't too different from Word. If you miss the Formatting toolbar and apply similar logic to Word and click the Format menu in Word you'll see Font and the next command is Paragraph. By process of elimination it shouldn't take too long to discover the Center option in the Paragraph dialog box. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ wrote in message oups.com... I've only been using PCs since 1983, and d'ya think I can find Word 97's method via the menu to horizontally center text? I see nothing on its Format menu. Unbelievably, even the context menu (i.e. highlight the text to be centered, then right-click or press Shift-F10) has no context- sensitive formatting. (Nor--you guessed--does the Format menu). Even Excel, which is a poor excuse for a word processor, has a text Alignment dialog, for Chrissake. Ya'd better answer me fast...I'm itching to dump on the Microsoft propeller-heads again. Yeah, I know, I oughta upgrade to a later Word. (Provided it's fixed.) Thanks much. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
Propeller-head prize: Myself, not Microsoft.
User error again. Thanks to ALL who replied. *** Charles: Yep, it WAS a tough night. Threatening to call MS's employees propeller-heads is a sure sign of that. But actually, Excel is quite a GOOD word processor. I don't know if the world at large takes full advantage of this, but I almost always use Excel if I've got heavily formatted text in blocks or columns. Much easier (for me at least) to move stuff around than deal with tables in Word, don'tcha know. And if you've got BULLETED text, why you can adjust the bullet distance and do other nifty things. AND you don't have to deal with Word's proto-A.I. automatic bulleting & numbering, which I inevitably have to defeat in many circumstances. And if you've got data dependencies, which I always seem have, then you CANNOT beat Excel. About the only limitation (of importance to me, at least) is that Excel's grasp of the printed page, and its resultant paragraph wrap and the like, can indeed differ slightly from the printer driver's, and you occasionally gotta make a row a cell smaller or larger in height accordingly. But I can live with that. I mean, Excel HAS text wrapping. So I think Excel is just EXCELlent--even when not using it's numeric functionality. Yet ya've got that too. Doug: Strangely, about the only thing I've ever centered in my brief 24-year microcomputing career is a one- or multi-line title, rarely a paragraph. Ergo my mind blocked out checking the Paragraph menu item's dialog. Duh. Suzanne: Thanks for the shortcut, Ctrl-E. As a keystroke maven, I should've known it. But did I? No-o-o-o. Beth: Yeah, my empirical method was a joke. I only checked Format's main menu level. I'll make sure I have a coupla glasses of wine next time I try to find something empirically. Thanks again all. *** |
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Where's text centering on Word's menus?
LOL Loved your responses and glad you have it sorted, or would that be
"centered"? :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton wrote in message ups.com... Propeller-head prize: Myself, not Microsoft. User error again. Thanks to ALL who replied. *** Charles: Yep, it WAS a tough night. Threatening to call MS's employees propeller-heads is a sure sign of that. But actually, Excel is quite a GOOD word processor. I don't know if the world at large takes full advantage of this, but I almost always use Excel if I've got heavily formatted text in blocks or columns. Much easier (for me at least) to move stuff around than deal with tables in Word, don'tcha know. And if you've got BULLETED text, why you can adjust the bullet distance and do other nifty things. AND you don't have to deal with Word's proto-A.I. automatic bulleting & numbering, which I inevitably have to defeat in many circumstances. And if you've got data dependencies, which I always seem have, then you CANNOT beat Excel. About the only limitation (of importance to me, at least) is that Excel's grasp of the printed page, and its resultant paragraph wrap and the like, can indeed differ slightly from the printer driver's, and you occasionally gotta make a row a cell smaller or larger in height accordingly. But I can live with that. I mean, Excel HAS text wrapping. So I think Excel is just EXCELlent--even when not using it's numeric functionality. Yet ya've got that too. Doug: Strangely, about the only thing I've ever centered in my brief 24-year microcomputing career is a one- or multi-line title, rarely a paragraph. Ergo my mind blocked out checking the Paragraph menu item's dialog. Duh. Suzanne: Thanks for the shortcut, Ctrl-E. As a keystroke maven, I should've known it. But did I? No-o-o-o. Beth: Yeah, my empirical method was a joke. I only checked Format's main menu level. I'll make sure I have a coupla glasses of wine next time I try to find something empirically. Thanks again all. *** |
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