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Barbara White - 19 May 2004 16:11 GMT

Hi, I'm using Word 2000 on Windows 2000.

I have a set of 1.5" tall text boxes. Some of the boxes contain a few
lines of text and others only have one line of text. I want the text to
appear in the middle of each of the text boxes instead of at the top.

The online help tells me that I can do this by using the text align box
on the Formatting toolbar, but I can't see that button on the toolbar.

I've looked in the Customize area for the formatting toolbar, but I
could only find text-alignment features under the Drawing toolbar. (And
when I select a text box, the align/middle feature is greyed out on the
drawing toolbar.)

So, how can I align the text to appear in the middle of a text box?

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Greg - 19 May 2004 16:33 GMT

Barbara,

I think the best option here is to put the text in a table
cell size and align to the text box.

Select one of the text boxes.

Set the internal text margin to 0" all the way around.
(Right click>Format Text Box>Text Box)

Insert a single-cell, borderless table and size it to the
text box.

Vertically center text in the cell.

You might won't to create an autotext entry for this
textbox/table combination and use for your other textboxes.

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