When you want to line up your text with the top, middle, or bottom of the page, align the text vertically in Microsoft Word. This feature is helpful to create the correct alignment for a title page, or to add visual interest to any page or pages of a document. Here's how to do it.
OS: Windows 7 SP1 X64 Office 2016 Word X64 both in English Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 174 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. 3) Set up a Title Page: include the page header flush left with the page number flush right at the top of the page. Go to Insert → Header → Edit Header → Design → Choose Different First Page Go to Insert → Page Number → Top of Page → Plain Number 3 → Click. Select the text that you want to center, and then click the Centered button on the Formatting toolbar. Note In Microsoft Office Word 2007, click Center in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. Select the text that you want to center, and then click Paragraph on the Format menu. In Word 2016, you can click the “Different First Page” checkbox in the Header and Footer Tools (in older versions, use the Page Setup dialog): You don’t need to put anything in the header; just use Format > Paragraph to add space after to force the content to start lower on the first page of the section.
Instructions in this article apply to Word for Office 365, Word 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003.
How to Vertically Align Text in Word
When you want to position text in a section of a document relative to the top and bottom margins, use vertical alignment.
To reflect a change in vertical alignment, your page or pages must be only partially full of text.
For Microsoft Word 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007
- Open the Word document in which you want to vertically align the text.
- Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
- In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup dialog launcher arrow in the lower-right corner.
- In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
- In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrowand choose either Top, Center, Justified, or Bottom.If you choose Justified, the text is spread out evenly from top to bottom.
- Your text will now be aligned the way you selected.
For Word 2003
To vertically align text in Microsoft Word 2003:
- Select File.
- Select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose either Top, Center, Justified, or Bottom.
- Select OK.
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Vertically Align Part of a Word Document
When you use the steps above, the default condition is to change the vertical alignment of the entire Microsoft Word document. If you want to change the alignment of only part of the document, select the text you want to vertically align.
Here's how to vertically align part of a document:
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- Select the text you want to vertically align.
- Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
- In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup dialog launcher in the lower-right corner.
- In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
- In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose an alignment.
- In the Preview section, select the Apply to dropdown arrowand choose Selected text.
- Select OK to apply the alignment to the selected text.
- Any text before or after the selection retains the existing alignment choices.
If you don't select text prior to performing the alignment selection, the Selected text preference can only be applied from the cursor's current location to the end of the document.
To make this work, position your cursor and then:
- Go to the Layout tab (or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word).
- In the Page Setup group, select the Page Setup arrow in the lower-right corner.
- In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Layout tab.
- In the Page section, select the Vertical alignment dropdown arrow and choose an alignment.
- In the Preview section, select the Apply to dropdown arrowand choose This point forward.