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How to center table/text in a document?
Hi,
I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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Go to Table | Cell Height and Width. On the Row tab, choose Center
alignment. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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Suzanne. Thanks (yet) again!! You are the Goddess of Word formatting.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Go to Table | Cell Height and Width. On the Row tab, choose Center alignment. Did that. It partially fixed the problem. Now, when I print the document, all the text is printing, except for the left-most border for the table (for all rows). The page layout shows 1.42 and .7 as the left and right margins respectively. I'll try fixing this by decreasing the table width on the left side. -amit -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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OK. managed to center the document, with all the text visible by fiddling
with the margins in page setup. One thing I don't understand is that currently, in the page setup, the left margin is 1.8" and right margin is .7", and in this case, the text prints out with equal margins on left and right. Does that mean the actual margins are much less than these? But, I was able to adjust and center the text by increasing the left margin by a few inches. Would love to get an explanation of what's going on here. Thanks, and have a wonderful holiday season!! -Amit "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Go to Table | Cell Height and Width. On the Row tab, choose Center alignment. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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I havent read all the replies but to center a table if you place your cursor
in the table and right click, go to Table Properties on the TABLE tab click center then OK. This centers the table on the page. To center text in individual cells just follow the standard keystrokes or highlight the text within the cell and then click the center icon on your toolbar. "Amit" wrote: Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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If you have set your margins to 1.8" left and 0.7" right (and do not have a
gutter), your table should be centered between those margins, not between the edges of the page. If you need to use these margins to get text centered on the page, then there is something odd about your printer. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... OK. managed to center the document, with all the text visible by fiddling with the margins in page setup. One thing I don't understand is that currently, in the page setup, the left margin is 1.8" and right margin is .7", and in this case, the text prints out with equal margins on left and right. Does that mean the actual margins are much less than these? But, I was able to adjust and center the text by increasing the left margin by a few inches. Would love to get an explanation of what's going on here. Thanks, and have a wonderful holiday season!! -Amit "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Go to Table | Cell Height and Width. On the Row tab, choose Center alignment. -- 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. "Amit" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to center a table in a document. Using MS Word 97. When I go to Page Layout, the Left and Right margins are set to 0.7". But, when I look at the document in Print Preview, there is more space on the left side of the document than on the right side. I'd like to make this symmetrical. In the Page Layout view, I've tried to play with the margins at the top, but it just shifts the text on the left, and in the Print Preview, the text is cut off. I think I need to adjust the "window" through which I'm looking at the text and shift it to the left, before centering the text. Hope this makes sense. I'm not an expert in Word formatting, so will appreciate any help with this. Thanks! -amit |
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