I'm not sure I agree with the way you count alignment option
4 years ago
I would have titled this article “8 Ways to Align …” . There are 4 margin alignment buttons on the tab for horizontal alignment. Plus the 4 vertical alignment options.
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But, my main point: You have missed 7 more obscure horizontal alignment options!
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I did a version of this article a while back that captured those extra options. Here is a link to it: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Am8lVyUzjKfphXAxm56R5_uCjZzj
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Wink: after reading this article I decided to follow your example and added the vertical alignment options.
Actually, I just realized there are “4 ways to align text in Word”, you just didn’t identify these categories:
. * Ribbon buttons
. * Keyboard Shortcuts
. * Dialog boxes (actually 2: Paragraph dialog and Page Setup dialog)
. * Hidden command buttons added to the QAT
The idea is that you have four ways to align text: left or right, center, justify, and vertically.
Honna12
3 years ago
The newest version of MS Word (at least for Macs) has a very different way of justifying from top to bottom… you have to select the text and open the “Page Setup” pane (File > Page Setup…) and then click “Microsoft Word” from the drop down that says “Page Attributes.” Then, you have to click Margins > Layout, and under the “Page” heading you can do vertical alignment, but you have to make sure you apply it to Selected Text before you click OK or you’ll have to undo it and go through all that torture again. It only took me a lot of web searching before I finally found these instructions in an obscure, hidden comment on MS Office’s Word Help platform.
Alma
3 years ago
CRLT+J does not work on my computer. Justify has been working until today. It is now grayed out. Irritating!
Randall Chadwick
4 months ago
This was a very, very incomplete and inaccurate and unhelpful article.
I would have titled this article “8 Ways to Align …” . There are 4 margin alignment buttons on the tab for horizontal alignment. Plus the 4 vertical alignment options.
.
But, my main point: You have missed 7 more obscure horizontal alignment options!
.
I did a version of this article a while back that captured those extra options. Here is a link to it: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Am8lVyUzjKfphXAxm56R5_uCjZzj
.
Wink: after reading this article I decided to follow your example and added the vertical alignment options.
Actually, I just realized there are “4 ways to align text in Word”, you just didn’t identify these categories:
. * Ribbon buttons
. * Keyboard Shortcuts
. * Dialog boxes (actually 2: Paragraph dialog and Page Setup dialog)
. * Hidden command buttons added to the QAT
The idea is that you have four ways to align text: left or right, center, justify, and vertically.
The newest version of MS Word (at least for Macs) has a very different way of justifying from top to bottom… you have to select the text and open the “Page Setup” pane (File > Page Setup…) and then click “Microsoft Word” from the drop down that says “Page Attributes.” Then, you have to click Margins > Layout, and under the “Page” heading you can do vertical alignment, but you have to make sure you apply it to Selected Text before you click OK or you’ll have to undo it and go through all that torture again. It only took me a lot of web searching before I finally found these instructions in an obscure, hidden comment on MS Office’s Word Help platform.
CRLT+J does not work on my computer. Justify has been working until today. It is now grayed out. Irritating!
This was a very, very incomplete and inaccurate and unhelpful article.
What exactly didn’t work for you, so that we can improve our article?