How Do I Center Text Vertically In Word For Mac
Kenneth Calimlim
You can center text vertically on a page in Word using the Page Setup dialog box. The strategies to center text are different if the document is a single section or multi-section document. As a best practice, you should NOT use extra blank returns or paragraphs to center text vertically on a page. If you want to center align text horizontally, simply select the text and then click any of the Alignment commands in the Paragraph group on the Home tab in the Ribbon.
By default, Microsoft Word documents contain one section. If you are working on a document with one page (such as a title page) where you want to center the text vertically and format the remainder of the document with the text aligned at the top of the page, you will need to create sections in your document. Each section can have different vertical alignment, page size, orientation, margins, and headers and footers.
If the vertical centering seems to be off, you may have inconsistent space before and / or settings for the paragraphs in the Paragraph dialog box. Alternatively, there may be extra blank returns or paragraphs above or below the text that should be deleted.
Be very careful when deleting section breaks. If you delete a section break, the current section takes on the section settings from the following section and your vertical alignment, headers, footers, page numbering, orientation and margins could change.
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I have some lines of the text, and those lines contains words with different sizes of fonts. I want to align them vertically to the center of a line instead of bottom. I'm using Microsoft Word 2003. I include an image to show what I mean:
If all the larger text in your document will be the same font size, and all the smaller text will be the same, select one bit of smaller text, and then, in the Font dialog box, on the Advanced tab, select Raised in the Position field, and then set the By value to a value that puts the text at the height that you want. Then create a character style for the smaller text. If the correctly styled smaller text is selected when you create the new style, the new style will have the properties of that text by default. (Instead of creating a new style, you could repurpose one of Word's existing styles, updating it to match the style of the smaller text). Then apply the style to all relevant text.
Alternatively, depending on the characteristics of the specific font that you're using, and the specific sizes that you're using, just styling the smaller text as a superscript by clicking the Superscript button might get you vertical centered text, or at least close enough to look convincing.
Horizontal alignment, also known as centered alignment, positions the text evenly between the margins on either side of the page. This tool also allows you to be selective with the text you align horizontally, giving you more control over what you can do to your document.
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There is nothing more frustrating when your text is not perfectly aligned in a cell. It is easy to center it horizontally, but centering it vertically is a bit more of a challenge. However the method mentioned above is the fastest and easiest way to fix it without going crazy.
The buttons you illustrated are for what I think of as Horizontal Alignment. The OP is asking about Vertical Alignment. It could be that I don't know the difference, but if so I've been making this mistake for a long time ;-)
Putting your text into a Text Box, centering the box, and then choosing the Vertical Alignment Centered icon in the Text inspector will do it. There is no way to automatically center text in the normal Text Layer of a Word Processing template, particularly if you have chosen Widow and Orphan control.
To me the text will be centred vertically. Horizontal alignment would be when they are on the same horizontal line which text is from the beginning. But you are right that in the Pages User Guide it is called horizontal alignment but I think it is a vertical alignment. What the PUG calls vertical alignment can only be made in a cell, text box or shape. We'll see what the OP says about this.
Now, if you are like me, and need to create an APA style paper, with a cover page, and save it as a word doc, this work around is worthless due to yet another limitation of the program. The text box will not port into word.
I'm trying to figure out if there is some simple way to display text in a GUI such that the text is centered vertically, horizontally, or both. I've tried using different GUI control styles, but nothing seems to work. I realize that I can probably achieve this effect by changing the "left" and "top" parameters, but I wonder if there is a better (or, at least different) way to accomplish this goal. Here is my example code:
The UDF uses the GetTextExtentPoint32W function to measure the text in pixels. It seems that in some very specific cases the returned value is actually less than the minimum value required for a label to accept the text. Windows actually adds a small margin to the right and bottom of a label to account for sloping italic fonts or letter with a drop tail (like "y") - my UDF does the same thing but in this case the margin was 1 pixel too small!
I am trying to find what Windows uses to determine the border size - I fear it is within the font file and accessing it would greatly add to the complexity of the UDF. So I will probably just increase the margin a tadge - after all this is the first complaint I have had. It seems you managed to find one of these specific cases!
Melba23, thanks for the solution. I had already come up with a work-around, but I'm not sure if it will scale properly if the font-size or GUI size (or both) change. I use 23 instead of 20 for the second parameter to _StringSize. I discovered this "solution" just by trial-and-error.
As I said above, it was the particular combination of those characters in that font size that caused the problem - changing the font size is almost certain to prevent the problem. What I have been looking for is an explanation of exactly why these combinations exist and how to recognise them.
But this is a random "magic value" fix - I am trying to find something more concrete to determine the value to add. From my experimentation the required value does not seem to have any linear relationship with font size or line length. So I will keep looking.
I cannot see - because the dialog is hiding the line - but I would imagine that you have not changed the font size value passed to the StringSize UDF and so it is calculating for the original 20pt font size. If you want it to calculate the correct values for the new font size that line should read:
I see the "centred" word on my screen. As explained earlier in the thread, at times the Windows seems to return a width value for a string which does then not fit the text when displayed! Despite lots of experimentation I cannot find a reliable solution - it seems to be a combination of specific font sizes and specific display parameters.
It would be very nice to get a fix for this.
Appending the styles
display: flex;align-items: center;
to a text element works perfectly to center multiline text.
Sure you can use this in an HTML element, but then you lose the font styling options without using CSS.
The CSS just sizes the , vertically center aligns the by setting the 's line-height equal to its height, and makes the an inline-block with vertical-align: middle. Then it sets the line-height back to normal for the , so its contents will flow naturally inside the block.
And here is another option, which may not work on older browsers that don't support display: table and display: table-cell (basically just Internet Explorer 7). Using CSS we simulate table behavior (since tables support vertical alignment), and the HTML is the same as the second example:
This technique uses an absolutely positioned element setting top, bottom, left and right to 0. It is described in more detail in an article in Smashing Magazine, Absolute Horizontal And Vertical Centering In CSS.
Alternatively, instead of aligning the content via the container, flexbox can also center a flex item with an auto margin when there is only one flex-item in the flex container (like the example given in the question above).
NB: All the above applies to centering items while laying them out in horizontal rows. This is also the default behavior, because by default the value for flex-direction is row. If, however flex-items need to be laid out in vertical columns, then flex-direction: column should be set on the container to set the main-axis as column and additionally the justify-content and align-items properties now work the other way around with justify-content: center centering vertically and align-items: center centering horizontally)
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