When you want to line up your text with the top, middle, or bottom of the page, align the text vertically in Microsoft Word. This feature is helpful to create the correct alignment for a title page, or to add visual interest to any page or pages of a document. Here's how to do it.
Instructions in this article apply to Word for Office 365, Word 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003.
Align text horizontally inside a text box just as you would align the text in the document by clicking the 'Home' menu and selecting the alignment you want, such as 'Align Left' or 'Center.' To align the text vertically inside a text box, click the 'Align Text' option under the Picture Tools Format menu.
How to Vertically Align Text in Word
• Enter a value to set word spacing in the word spacing box. Word spacing inserts uniform spacing between two or more words in selected text. Set the text alignment options: • Select the alignment icon for left justified, right justified, center justified, or uniformly justified. This video shows how to use LF Aligner to align two Word documents, how to review the alignment in Excel and how to create a translation memory in the TMX format from the alignment. Tip 1 of 11: New Word for Mac 2016. The tools included here allow you to adjust the dimensions and orientation of individual pages, and to add multi-column text for documents such as. Must be because Word gives prevalence to the picture options when a picture is selected: Press the left/right arrow once to deselect the picture and move the cursor before/after the picture; or Move your mouse leftwards until the cursor become a 'northeast-pointing arrow,' then click to select the whole paragraph.
When you want to position text in a section of a document relative to the top and bottom margins, use vertical alignment.
To reflect a change in vertical alignment, your page or pages must be only partially full of text.
For Microsoft Word 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007
Open the Word document in which you want to vertically align the text.
Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup dialog launcher arrow in the lower-right corner.
In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrowand choose either Top, Center, Justified, or Bottom.
If you choose Justified, the text is spread out evenly from top to bottom.
Your text will now be aligned the way you selected.
For Word 2003
To vertically align text in Microsoft Word 2003:
Select File.
Select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose either Top, Center, Justified, or Bottom.
Select OK.
Vertically Align Part of a Word Document
How To Align Word Document
When you use the steps above, the default condition is to change the vertical alignment of the entire Microsoft Word document. If you want to change the alignment of only part of the document, select the text you want to vertically align.
Here's how to vertically align part of a document:
Select the text you want to vertically align.
Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup dialog launcher in the lower-right corner.
In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose an alignment.
In the Preview section, select the Apply to dropdown arrowand choose Selected text.
Select OK to apply the alignment to the selected text.
Any text before or after the selection retains the existing alignment choices.
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If you don't select text prior to performing the alignment selection, the Selected text preference can only be applied from the cursor's current location to the end of the document.
To make this work, position your cursor and then:
Word Textbook 2013
Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup arrow in the lower-right corner.
In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose an alignment.
In the Preview section, select the Apply to dropdown arrowand choose This point forward.