Text alignment is a paragraph formatting attribute that determines the appearance of the text in a whole paragraph. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned the most common alignment , text is aligned with the left margin. In a paragraph that is justified, text is aligned with both margins.
Align text left. Center text. Align text right. Justify text. Distribute text. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, do one of the following:. Align Text Left. Center Text. Align Text Right. When you justify text, space is added between words so that both edges of each line are aligned with both margins. The last line in the paragraph is aligned left. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Justify Text.
Important: Office for Mac is no longer supported. They give three additional degrees of justification. Justify - Medium Notice that the High and Medium settings move words from line to line.
The menu button that gives a drop-down with all of these is only active if you have a Right-to-Left language enabled in you version of Word. In Word Perfect, this is called Flush-Right.
In Word, this is done by use of Tab settings or Alignment Tabs that ignore those settings. A common example of this kind of formatting is a Table of Contents. Word will automatically define a Table of Contents in just this way. Here are examples of text with the Ruler, with the non-printing tab characters displayed. Note that the tabs could be set at the paragraph indents; here they are not to make what is happening clearer. If they were set at the indents, the tab for the left-most text would not be used, simply the indent.
The second is Flush Right with an additional Center tab. The third example uses a Right tab to align text on the left with an even right margin and that on the right with an even left margin. Still with a Center tab. The fourth example shows use to line up columns to meet in the middle using tab settings. Other times you will want one column aligned to the left margin, a second column centered and a third column right-aligned with the right margin. In Word Perfect this is done in a left-justified paragraph by typing the text on the left, pressing the Center key, typing the centered text, and then pressing Right-Justify and typing the text for the right margin.
A typical place for doing this is in the headers and footers of a page. Both the header and the footer Styles are set up with a center-tab and a right-tab. If you are in either of these places, simply type your left text, press the tab key, type your centered text, press the tab key again, and type your right-aligned text.
This is shown in the examples above. If you need wrapping for these columns of text, whether in the body of your document or in a header or footer, you could use a Table in Word. Remember that each cell in a table can be aligned independently and that you can turn off the borders for the table so that it will not print lines between or around cells. The screenshots below show text where this has been done.
They have the same margin settings but different indent and tab settings. Both use dot leaders for the Right Tab. Display of non-printing formatting characters is turned on. The first method shown below tab set outside right indent works in Word and later as well as earlier versions. The second method tab set outside right margin only works in Word versions and earlier. See also Working with Tabs. In Word , this is done using the Page Setup dialog found under the File menu. In Ribbon versions of Word it is done using the same dialog launched using the dialog launcher button on the Page Layout Group of the Page Layout tab.
These and the dialog are shown below. The dialog box is virtually identical from Word Word The controls for vertical alignment are on the Layout tab of the dialog box in the middle. A preview will be displayed as you pick different options. Before you click on OK make sure your change will apply to the part of your document you want.
This setting somehow gets triggered every once in a while by mistake. It may be a rogue mouse click, a bad macro, or an upset employee. At the bottom right is a button that would apply the choice as a default. Text should be positioned using one of the alignments mentioned below, or using tab stops and the Tab key. The alignment keyboard shortcut keys can vary depending on what program is used and the type of computer.
In Microsoft Word and most word processors , there are four alignments for text: left , center , right , and justified. With programs designed for English users, the left alignment is the default alignment.
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