txt file, all formatting is lost, including any alignment. To change the horizontal alignment of text in WordPad, highlight the text and click the left, center, or right alignment icons in the Paragraph section of the menu bar. If you do not want this setting to affect the whole document, change the "Apply to" to the selected text.
If you want to change the vertical alignment of text, follow the steps listed below. For right alignment, highlight the text and press Ctrl+ R to align text to the right. For center alignment, highlight the text and press Ctrl+ E.
For left alignment, highlight the text and press Ctrl+ L to align text to the left margin. Press one of the shortcut keys to adjust the alignment of any highlighted text. In all new versions of Microsoft Word, the alignment options are found under the Home tab. To change the horizontal alignment of text in Word, highlight the text you want to change and click the left, center, or right alignment icons, as shown in the image. They can also be used to align text in a column or row for Microsoft Excel and most other text programs. If you need to do this, you may find it easier to insert the graphic into a text box before doing your positioning.The steps below are for changing the alignment of text in Microsoft Word. If that is the case, you'll need to change to one of the non-inline graphics options, set the wrapping, and adjust the vertical position manually. The other possible cause is that some graphics cannot, for whatever reason, be positioned as described here. In order to follow the rest of the steps, you'll need to convert it to an inline graphic, as described in other WordTips. First, your graphic may not really be inline. If Word won't display the Font dialog box (step 2), then there are two possible reasons. The value you use will depend on the size of the graphic whose position you are adjusting and the characteristics of the font used in the paragraph. You may need to play with the value entered in the By box (step 5) to get just the look you want. Enter a value in the By box, to the right of the Position control, that represents the number of points by which you want to lower the graphic.Using the Position drop-down list, choose Lowered.The Character Spacing tab of the Font dialog box. (In Word 2010 and Word 2013, Character Spacing is found in the Advanced tab.) (See Figure 1.)įigure 1. Make sure the Character Spacing tab is displayed.Select the inline graphic by clicking on it once.
You can change the vertical alignment of an inline graphic by treating it as you would any other single character with a vertical position you'd want to adjust. Word treats inline graphics as a single character. So the solution involves adjusting the vertical positioning of the graphic. The effect that Robert is noticing is the default behavior for inline graphics, although the cause he cites is backwards-it is actually the graphic that defaults to bottom alignment with the text, not the text with the graphic. He wonders if it is possible to change that so the text is either center- or top-aligned with the graphic. Robert notes that when he places an inline graphic in his document that is taller than a single line of text, the text defaults to being aligned with the bottom of the graphic.