Text Alignment in a TextBox

[JBNewsGroup]

Hi,

How do you vertically align (center vertically) text in a TextBox? I am
using WORD 2000 and cannot find anything about centering vertically.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jerry Bodoff

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word (even Word 2003) does not offer this feature (Publisher does). But you
can put a single-cell borderless table in the text box and use the vertical
alignment controls for tables.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi,

How do you vertically align (center vertically) text in a TextBox? I am
using WORD 2000 and cannot find anything about centering vertically.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jerry Bodoff

Hi Jerry,

You couldn't find anything about it because it isn't there. :-(

You can set centered vertical alignment for text in a table cell, or
for regular text in a section, but the option doesn't exist for a
textbox.

One way to fake it is to use Space Before formatting for the first
paragraph of the textbox text. Another way is to use a one-cell table
instead of a textbox, and drag the table to the desired size and
position. Which way might be "better" depends on what you want to put
into the box.

 

[JBNewsGroup]

Hi,

Thanks Suzanne and Jay. That is what I thought. I am writing a macro that
draws shapes and I need to center text vertically and horizontally. I posed
a question about graphics and Jezebel lead me to believe that I did not need
the one cell table. Thanks for confirming that I do need it. Was going
crazy looking for some hidden tidbit.

Jerry Bodoff