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Chapter 5 Working with Text 85
When you’re working with text in a table cell, you can use the Format Bar to align text
both horizontally and vertically in the cell.
The Text pane of the Text Inspector gives you access to more alignment and line
spacing settings.
To open the Text pane of the Text Inspector:
m Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Text Inspector button, and then click Text.
Aligning Text Horizontally
You can change the alignment of paragraphs in a page, column, table cell, text box, or
shape so that text is aligned to the left or right border, centered, or aligned on both left
and right (justified).
Use the Alignment buttons in the Format Bar to quickly change the alignment of text
in your document. To change the alignment of text, select the text, and then click the
Alignment buttons in the Format Bar.
Align text horizontally.
Align text vertically.
Click to change the
color of selected text.
Horizontal alignment buttons:
Click to align selected text left, right,
center, or to the left and right, or
special table cell alignment.
Vertical alignment buttons:
Click to align text to the top,
center, or bottom of a text box,
shape, or table cell.
Character and
line spacing:
Adjust character, line,
and paragraph spacing
for selected text.
Drag to adjust the amount of space
between text and the inside borders
of text boxes, table cells, and shapes.
The Text Inspector
button.