

The "text-align" property is set to "center" to indicate the element is centered in the middle of the page or containing div. In the example below, we've added them to the tag. If you only have one or a few blocks of text to center, add the style attribute to the element's opening tag and use the "text-align" property. You can center the text of a website with CSS by specifying the text-align property of the element to be centered. We recommend you use the style sheet method (shown below) to center text in HTML. Although it may still work, it's expected to be removed in favor of using CSS. Thank you, Allan Wyatt, for being here for us, and getting us through this nonsense called MicroSoft.The tag is now considered deprecated. The only way I have come up with for dealing with the frustrations of using these programs is to imagine that I'm trying to work with a retarded child, and not expect anything more than that in return. For one of the richest companies in the World, MicroSoft authors the most dysfunctional programs the computing age has ever seen, and continues to do so.


The fact that I'm having to spend nearly a half hour researching how to get text to vertically center in a table cell-only to find (thus far) that it can only be done on a Per-Cell basis)-is evidence. Nothing costs me more time in my work than dealing with the inefficiency and sloppy, thoughtless programming of these applications. The text on this page declares, "Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world." It's only that because MicroSoft got there first, not because of the quality of the program. This extra spacing before or after affects the centering in the same way that paragraph indents affect horizontal spacing.Īs a web & mobile app developer, I have to use MSWord & Excel frequently in my database work. You should note that vertical centering will not give the desired results if you have the paragraph formatting for the text set to anything except single spacing, with no space before or after the paragraph. Choose the Alignment (Word 97) or Cell Alignment (Word 2000 or later) option from the Context menu.This displays a Context menu for the cell. Right-click on the cell containing the information you want to vertically center.Centering text vertically is almost as easy: All you need to do is position the insertion point somewhere within the text and then click on the Center button on the Home tab of the ribbon or on the Formatting toolbar. There are two ways to center information: horizontally and vertically. Often it is necessary to center information within the cells of a table. Tables are a powerful formatting tool used in many Word documents.
