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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / July 2007Can not center text
This is a very bizarre thing: the text is centered just fine in a letter sized document, but change the page size to legal and the centering is still for letter. I checked the styles and formatting and there is nothing to explain this. Ditto with clearing all the formatting and then trying to center. I also tried creating a center tab - also didn't work. The page does have a page border but I also found nothing in those settings to explain why the document text will not recognize the new page size. Any ideas on how to solve this? Thanks. Am I missing something here? Everything you mention refers to *horizontal* centering, but Letter & Legal size don't differ in width, only height (8.5x11 as opposed to 8.5x14). What, exactly, are you expecting to see happen? The *middle* of an 8.5" wide page is the middle of an 8.5" wide page regardless of how tall the page may be.  SignatureRegards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac > This is a very bizarre thing: the text is centered just fine in a letter > sized document, but change the page size to legal and the centering is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Any ideas on how to solve this? > Thanks. I should have been more specific. The text moves to the left when the page size is changed - no longer in the center of the page. We also tried 11 X 17 and other pages sizes and got the same thing. All the settings read as center but the center of the text is actually in the first third of the page. > Am I missing something here? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > Thanks. Though I share CyberTaz's confusion, I'll charitably assume that you're using landscape orientation. If so, try this: 1. Format | Columns. 2. Set "Apply to" to "Whole document." 3. Click on the preset picture for One (even if 1 column is already selected); this will check the "Equal column width" box. 4. OK. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > This is a very bizarre thing: the text is centered just fine in a letter > sized document, but change the page size to legal and the centering is still [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Any ideas on how to solve this? > Thanks. I will try this when I get back to my office. The evil document in question definitely was not set up with columns but there may be a bit of spaghetti code tucked away in there somewhere. I have found some buggy behavior in other Word documents that makes me wonder whether someone did some less than desirable tweaking to the global template. Thanks! > Though I share CyberTaz's confusion, I'll charitably assume that you're > using landscape orientation. If so, try this: [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > Thanks. There's a bug in Word that sometimes results in its thinking that you have a single column narrower than the margin width or, worse still, two columns, the first of which is margin width (leaving no room for the second). Checking the "Equal column width" box cures this. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I will try this when I get back to my office. The evil document in question > definitely was not set up with columns but there may be a bit of spaghetti [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > > Thanks. Bingo! That fixed it. Thanks for the help! > There's a bug in Word that sometimes results in its thinking that you have a > single column narrower than the margin width or, worse still, two columns, [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > > > Thanks. Glad it worked for you as it has for so many others. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Bingo! That fixed it. > [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > > > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > > > > > Thanks.
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