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Alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraph: left-aligned text, right-aligned text, centered text, or justified text, which is aligned evenly along the left and right margins. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), the left edge of the paragraph is flush with the left margin.

Vertical alignment determines the position of the text within a section of a document relative to the top and bottom margins, and is often used to create a cover page.

  1. Select the text that you want to align.

  2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Align Left or Align Right .

  1. Select the text that you want to center.

  2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Center .

  1. Select the text that you want to center.

  2. On the Layout or Page Layout tab, click the Dialog Box Launcher Dialog box button in the Page Setup group, and then click the Layout tab.

  3. In the Vertical alignment box, click Center.

  4. In the Apply to box, click Selected text, and then click OK.

When you justify text in Word, you give your text straight edges on both sides of the paragraph. Justifying extends each line of your text to the left and right margins. Justifying text might make the last line of text in a paragraph considerably shorter than the other lines.

  1. Select the text you want to justify.

  2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Justify .

Tips: 

  • In the Paragraph group, click the Dialog Box Launcher Dialog box button, and select the Alignment drop-down menu to set your justified text.

    You can open the Paragraph dialog box by clicking the Expand icon.

    In the Paragraph dialog box, sent the direction of the alignment.

  • You can also use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + J to justify your text.

In Office Word 2007, you can choose from a selection of predesigned cover pages to create a professional-looking document quickly and easily.

  1. On the Insert tab, in the Pages group, click Cover Page.

    Word Ribbon Image

  2. Click the cover page that you want.

    A cover page is always added to the beginning of the open document.

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You’ve probably seen a document or two with a header or footer that has left and right-aligned text. It might also have centered text. These alignment configurations are easy to accomplish in the header because those sections have special attributes, and you can learn more about those particular attributes by reading How to align header or footer content to the left and right margins in Microsoft Word.

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Unfortunately, if you’ve tried to apply separate right and left alignments to the same line of text in the body of a document, you’ll quickly learn the task is impossible.

Somewhere along the line, you might have learned how to force the issue by inserting a table, but that’s not the only way to align text in the same line to both the left and right margins. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do so by using alignment tabs.

For this tutorial, I’ll be using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can also use earlier versions of Word. It’s important to note this technique isn’t appropriate for the browser edition: It won’t let you set a tab, and it won’t display pre-existing tabs correctly within the context of this technique.

For an additional visual to follow along with, you can download our demonstration file here.

Jump to:

  • About Word alignment options
  • About aligned tabs
  • How to set a right-aligned tab
  • How to use a right-aligned tab
  • Additional Word formatting tools

About Word alignment options

Learning how to use more than one kind of alignment in the body of a document isn’t all too difficult, but first, you’ll need to understand Word’s different alignment options:

  • Left.
  • Center.
  • Right.
  • Justified.

You’ll find them in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. Figure A shows an example of all four.

Figure A

Word offers four types of alignment.

Word offers four types of alignment.

The red lines on either side indicate the left and right margins.

About aligned tabs

An aligned tab is exactly what it sounds like — it lets you determine the alignment of content with a tab. With tabs, you have five alignment options:

  • Left: Aligns text with the tab.
  • Center: Aligns text within the tab’s left and right positions.
  • Right: Aligns text to the right side, or the tab position’s border.
  • Decimal: Aligns decimal with the tab position.
  • Bar: Draws a vertical line.

Now that you know what types of alignment tabs Word supports, let’s create one. Specifically, we’ll create a right-align tab at the right margin. That way, we can enter content at the left margin and then use the tab to align content to the right margin.

How to set a right-aligned tab

Before setting the tab, check the document’s margins. If you’re using the out-of-the-box Normal template, right and left margins are both one inch, as shown earlier in Figure A. However, if you look at the right margin on the ruler, you’ll find that it’s set at 6.5 rather than 7.5. This is because your printer determines the right position. You’ll need to set the right-aligned tab to the same position as the document’s right margin, whatever that might be.

Now, let’s create the right-aligned tab as follows:

  1. Click the Home tab.
  2. Click the Paragraph group’s dialog launcher to open the dialog.
  3. Click Tabs in the bottom-left corner.
  4. Enter 6.5 in the Tab stop position.
  5. Click Right in the Alignment section (Figure B).

Figure B

Set a right-aligned tab at the document’s right margin.

Set a right-aligned tab at the document’s right margin.
  1. Click Set.
  2. Click OK.

How to use a right-aligned tab

It’s impossible to apply more than one alignment property to the same line of content in Word. For instance, if you enter text and apply center alignment, and then you enter more text and apply right alignment, Excel will right-align the entire line. In this case, you would lose the center alignment.

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Usually when you need that kind of arrangement, you would insert a table with two or more cells and apply alignments to the cells. It works and it’s easy, but you have to insert a table every time you encounter one of these lines. There’s another way that doesn’t require a table at all: Alignment tabs.

How to split a sentence with the right-alignment tab

In the last section, you added a right-aligned tab. In this section, we’ll enter a sentence and then split it using the right-alignment tab as follows:

  1. Enter some text, such as: “This line is both left and right aligned.” By default, Word aligns this text with the left margin.
  2. Click to the left of “and” in your sentence and press Tab.

As you can see in Figure C, everything after the word “and” is now aligned to the right margin. When you pressed Tab, Word used the right-aligned tab you created in the last section. As a result, the text to the right of the cursor was pushed to the right margin.

Figure C

Press Tab to move all text to the right of the cursor to the right margin.

Press Tab to move all text to the right of the cursor to the right margin.

If you don’t get similar results, check your right margin again and make sure you entered the current measurement when creating the right-aligned tab.

All in all, an alignment tab is a better choice than a table if you have several instances of text throughout the document that need two different alignments.

Additional Word formatting tools

Changing text alignment in Word documents is a common way Microsoft Office users format their documents, but Word comes with a variety of other formatting tools and options that are readily available in the Home ribbon menu. Keep in mind that many formatting options are also accessible when you select text in the body of a document or right-click anywhere in the document.

If you’re looking to change formatting in your document, here are some other stylistic changes you can make beyond text alignment:

  • Font: Font formatting options are available to adjust font size, font style, text highlight, text effects and typography, case changes, subscript and superscript, and strikethrough.
  • Paragraph: Paragraph formatting options include bullets, numbering, multilevel lists, indent increases and decreases, sort, and line and paragraph spacing.
  • Style: If you’re interested in updating the overall design of your document, Word has several preset headers and list formats you can choose from. You can also set up your own style in this section of the Home ribbon.
  • Other formatting options: The format painter and the option to clear all formatting are great ways to make mass formatting changes to a Word document.

Whether you’re new to Word or you’ve been using it for years, these formatting tools are great to have ready in your back pocket. More advanced users have the option to granularly customize the settings for many of these formatting tools.

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Apply Left, Center, Right or Justify Alignment to Text in Microsoft Word

by Avantix Learning Team | Updated April 13, 2022

Applies to: Microsoft® Word® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 365 (Windows)

You can align or justify text or other content in Word in several ways including using keyboard shortcuts, selecting commands in the Ribbon, using the Paragraph dialog box or modifying a style. It’s important to note that alignment or justification is paragraph formatting so applies to entire paragraphs. You can align text or inline graphics in paragraphs that are followed by a hard return (you pressed Enter or Return).

To see where paragraphs have been created in a Word document, it’s helpful to turn on Show/Hide ¶ on the Home tab in the Ribbon.

In this article, we’ll review 4 different ways to change horizontal alignment or justification in Word documents.

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There are 4 types of alignment that can be applied to paragraphs:

  • Align left – aligns text or inline graphics with the left margin or indent
  • Center – centers text or inline graphics between the left and right margins or indents
  • Align right – aligns text or inline graphics with the right margin or indent
  • Justify – distributes text evenly between the left and right margins or indents

A paragraph aligns within the indents (indent markers appear on the Ruler). The indents may be different from the margins. Paragraphs are also entered in cells in tables and each paragraph in a cell may have different indents and alignment settings.

1. Align or justify using keyboard shortcuts

To align or justify paragraphs using keyboard shortcuts:

  • Align left – select the paragraph(s) and press Ctrl + L to align to the left.
  • Align right – select the paragraph(s) and press Ctrl + R to align to the right.
  • Align center – select the paragraph(s) and press Ctrl + E to align center.
  • Justify – select the paragraph(s) and press Ctrl + J to justify.

2. Align or justify using the Ribbon

To align or justify paragraphs using the Word Ribbon

  1. Select the paragraph(s) to which you want to apply alignment or justification. If you would like to select all paragraphs, press Ctrl + A.
  2. Click the Home tab in the Ribbon and then click Align Left, Center, Align Right or Justify in the Paragraph group.

Align and Justify commands appear on the Home tab in the Ribbon in the Paragraph group:

Align commands in Word including left, center, right and justify.

3. Align or justify using the Paragraph dialog box

To align or justify paragraphs using the Paragraph dialog box:

  1. Select the paragraph(s) to which you want to apply alignment or justification. If you would like to select all paragraphs, press Ctrl + A.
  2. Right-click and select Paragraph. The Paragraph dialog box appears.
  3. From the Alignment drop-down menu, select Left, Center, Right or Justify.
  4. Click OK.

You can also display the Paragraph dialog box by clicking the Home tab in the Ribbon and then clicking the dialog box launcher on the bottom right of the Paragraph group.

The Paragraph dialog box includes a drop-down menu to select Alignment:

Paragraph dialog box in Word with commands to align or justify text.

4. Align or justify by modifying a style

When you create a new blank document, it starts out using the Normal style which contains default paragraph and character formatting.

If you want to apply alignment or justification to multiple paragraphs throughout a document (such as a heading), you can modify a style (such as Heading 1).

To change the alignment for a heading style (such as Heading 1):

  1. Click in a paragraph using the heading style (typically applied through the Home tab in the Ribbon).
  2. Click the Home tab in the Ribbon.
  3. In the Styles group, right-click the heading style. A dialog box appears.
  4. Click Format. A drop-down menu appears.
  5. Click Paragraph. The Paragraph dialog box appears.
  6. From the Alignment drop-down menu, select Center or your preferred alignment.
  7. Click OK twice.

Below is the Modify Style dialog box with align and justify commands:

Modify style dialog box in Word with commands to align or justify text.

There may be issues if you modify alignment or justification in the Normal style since other styles are based on this style by default. Cells in tables would likely be affected and so would other styles that are based on the Normal style (such as Header, Footer and Heading styles). Paragraphs using these styles would then inherit the alignment or justification (unless alignment or justification has been specifically modified in these styles). If you are comfortable using styles, you could create your own style or modify a different Word style to avoid this issue.

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How to align text left and right on same line in Ms Word

Ever wondered how to align text left and right on same line in Ms Word. The trick is to use tab spacing and is explained in following steps.

Setting up tab space to align text left and right align on same line in Word

1: Make sure the “Ruler” is visible. Navigate to View Tab and check the box against “Ruler” to display ruler.

2: Change “Left Tab” to “Right Tab” by clicking in icon shown below.

Setting up right tab margin

Setting right tab

3: Right click anywhere on the top ruler to get tab marker shown below.

4: Drag the tab marker to the right margin.

Step 3 & 4 of how to align text left and right on same line in Ms Word

Step 3 & 4

Now you are ready. Text typed on any line will be aligned left. Press tab to move to the right margin and text typed thereafter will be right aligned.

In this course, we will talk about how to align text in Microsoft Word. Meanwhile, this is the continuation of the previous tutorial on how to change font style, size and font case in Microsoft Word which still part of formatting text in your documents.

Furthermore, we’ll learn how to change text so that it looks like what we want it to look like.

Table of contents

  • Text Alignment
  • What is text alignment in MS Word?
  • Default text alignment in MS Word
  • How Many Alignment in MS Word
    • Left Aligned Text
    • Right Align Text
    • Center Aligned Text
    • Justified Text
  • How to Align Text in Microsoft Word
  • Which shortcut key to align the text?
  • Summary

What is text alignment in MS Word?

Text alignment is a way to change the look of all the text in a paragraph. It is an attribute of paragraph formatting. For instance, when a paragraph is align to the left, which is the most common way to align it. The text lines up with the left margin. On the other hand, when a paragraph is justified, the text lines up with both sides of the page.

Default text alignment in MS Word

The default alignment for text or paragraphs is left-align with straight margins on the left and uneven ones on the right. However, there are many other ways to format a document’s alignment.

Also, the alignment buttons in the Paragraph group on the Home tab let us justify or align not just text but also other objects.

How Many Alignment in MS Word

There are four types of text alignment available in Microsoft Word — left-align, center-align, right-align, and justify.

Left Aligned Text

A paragraph or a text is left-align when that paragraph or text is aligned evenly along the left margin of the page in MS-Word. It is also known as “left-justified,”.

Right Align Text

Right-alignment means that the text of a paragraph is line up evenly along the right edge of the page in MS-Word. Moreover, right alignment works well for columns with numbers, tables, and other types of ordered lists. 

Center Aligned Text

Center aligned means that the text of a paragraph is in the middle of the left and right margins.

Justified Text

Justified Text in MS-Word is a paragraph’s text when it lines up evenly along both the left and right edges of the page.

How to Align Text in Microsoft Word

Here are the ways How to Align Text in Microsoft Word.

  1. Align text left or right in Microsoft Word

    First select text in Word you want to align. Then, at the top of the window, click or tap on the Home tab.Selecting text and opening the Home tab from Microsoft Word

    Click or tap Align Left or Align Right in the Paragraph section, depending on what you want to do.

    Align Left and Align Right
    Here’s what right-aligned text looks like:

    Text that has been aligned to the right in Microsoft Word

    TIP: You can also align text to the left or right quickly by selecting the text and then pressing the CTRL + L or CTRL + R keys on your keyboard.

  2. Center text horizontally in Microsoft Word

    First, choose the text you want to center horizontally. Then, at the top of the window, click or tap on the same Home tab.

    Selecting text and opening the Home tab from Microsoft Word
    When you click or tap on Center in the Paragraph section, the text you chose is moved right away to the middle of the page’s side margins.

    The Center button from the Paragraph section in Microsoft Word
    TIP: You can also center text by selecting it and then pressing the CTRL + E keys on your keyboard.

  3. Justify text in Microsoft Word

    When text is justified, the edges on both sides of the page are straight. Word can add more or less space between words so that each line is filled from beginning to end. But if the last line of text has too few words, it can be cut down.

    To justify text in Word, you must first select the text and then click or tap on the Home tab at the top of the window.Selecting text and opening the Home tab from Microsoft Word

    Justify is a button you can click or tap in the Paragraph section. This is how your text should look:

    Justify button from the Paragraph section in Microsoft Word
    TIP: If you select the text and then press the CTRL and J keys on your keyboard, you can quickly align text.

  4. Align text vertically (top, center, justify, bottom) on the pages of a Microsoft Word document

    First, select the text, just like you would for any other text-alignment task. Then, at the top of the window, click or tap on the Layout tab.

    Select text and open the Layout tab from Microsoft Word

    Then, in the Page Setup area, click or tap on the Dialog Box Launcher button. It is a small button in the bottom-right corner of the Page Setup section that looks like an arrow.

    Dialog Box Launcher button from the Page Setup section in Word

    Now, the window for setting up pages opens. Choose the Layout tab at the top of the window.

    Layout tab from the Page Setup

    In the Page section, look for a setting called Vertical alignment. It should be set to “top” by default, which means that the text is aligned vertically to the top of the page. But you can set the text to be aligned in the middle, at the bottom, or even to justify. Click or tap on Vertical alignment, and then choose the option you like best.

    Options for Vertical Alignment on the Page

    Then, make sure that Selected text is chosen in the box that says “Apply to” at the bottom of the window. This only changes the alignment of the text you chose. But if you’d rather, you can apply the vertical alignment to all the text in the whole document by leaving the Apply to setting on Whole document.

    Choosing to apply the alignment to the Whole document or only to the Selected text

    Here’s what a vertically centered piece of text looks like:

    Text Centered Vertically

Simple, right? Now, all you have to do is try out the different alignment options until your text looks exactly how you want it to. You may also want to change the color of the font or just some of the cases in your Word document. Just visit our previous tutorial.

Which shortcut key to align the text?

Here are frequently used shortcuts to align the text in MS Word.

Text alignment Short Cuts
Increase the font size by 1 point. Ctrl+Right bracket (])
Center the text. Ctrl+E
Align the text to the left. Ctrl+L
Align the text to the right. Ctrl+R
shortcut key is used to align the text

Summary

In summary, we’ve talked about how to change text alignment in Microsoft Word, as well as how to apply those alignments in a document and what those terms mean. In addition, we know the available alignment in Microsoft Word. We also know how to use shortcuts that will make our formatting documents easy.

We hope this tutorial helps you as you format your documents in MS Word.


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There are times when you want to align text both to the left and right of your document. Usually, to do this, you might have to use tables for this kind of alignment to look neat.

However, there is a simple way to do this without going through the trouble of adding and then removing tables, as you will see below.

  1. Open the document where you want to align text to the left and right.
  2. Go to the ‘Home’ tab on the ribbon.

  • Under the ‘Paragraph’ group, click the downward-facing arrow in the right bottom corner.

  • A ‘Paragraph’ dialog box will appear.

  • Go to the ‘Indents and Spacing’ section.
  • From the ‘Alignment section, select ‘Left.’

  • At the bottom of the dialog box, select ‘Tabs.’

  • A ‘Tabs’ dialog box will appear.

  • First, enter a digit into the ‘Tab stop position.’ This digit is where you want the right-hand text to end or stop.

  1. Go down to the alignment section and check ‘Right’ from the list of options.

  1. Click ‘Set’ and then OK.

Now you can start typing.

  1. Before you type any text, press the ‘Tab’ button on your keyboard.

  1. When starting a new line, press ‘Enter’ and then the ‘Tab’ key.
  2. Now, place the cursor at the left location where you want to insert text.
  3. Type your text as you usually would.

  1. Instead of pressing the ‘Enter’ button on the keyboard to enter a new line, press the downward-facing arrow.
  2. Now, your text is right and left-aligned.

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The first step is downloading Simul Docs.

After writing your first draft in Microsoft Word, upload it to Simul Docs. This will automatically make it the first version. Now, another colleague can open it and make their edits. This will create another version different from the first.

Whenever another person opens a version and makes edits, a new version is created with the latest changes.

Sometimes, you might be in a rush and forget to turn on tracked changes so your modifications can be updated. You have nothing to worry about. Simul Docs automatically records these edits regardless of your online or offline status.

Since it is a collaboration, a bonus feature is the ability to add comments to the document. If you want a colleague to review the changes by a specific time, or any other instructions, you can let them know in the comment section. Later on, these comments can be removed after your groupmates have seen and executed the instructions.

Additionally, you and your groupmates can work on the document at the same time. There’s no need to sit around waiting for someone else to make edits. You might do your part in time, and the last person ends up costing the group credit because they work slowly. You can save time by working on a document at once, and Simul Docs keeps each version separately.

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Adjusting Text Alignment

Good formatting is important. After all, you need your text to be easy to read, so it needs to be presented on the page (or screen) clearly and consistently. And text alignment is a big part of this. In this post, then, we’re looking at how to adjust the text alignment in Microsoft Word.

Adjusting Text Alignment

The alignment options in MS Word control how text is positioned in relation to the page margins. This can be controlled via the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab on the ribbon.

From left to right: Align Left, Center, Align Right, and Justify.

From left to right, you have four alignment options available. These are:

  • Align Left – Used to align the text to the left margin
  • Center – Used to position text centrally on the page
  • Align Right – Used to align the text with the right margin
  • Justify – Used to spread text evenly across the page so the first word on each line begins at the left margin and the last word ends at the right margin

To apply formatting, simply select the relevant text (or place the cursor where you want to type) and select an alignment option.

Alternatively, you can select the text you want to adjust and click the arrow in the bottom corner of the “Paragraph” section to open a new window. You can then select an option from the dropdown “Alignment” menu and click “OK.”

The Paragraph menu.

Which Option Should You Use?

For the main body of your work, you have two main options: Align Left and Justify. Justify is popular because it creates neat blocks of text, so it looks tidy. It is also useful if you have multiple columns of text on the page (this is why newspapers and magazines often use justified text).

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Align Left is the default for most people, though, particularly in the publishing industry. This is because it’s easy to read and prevents “rivers” (i.e., vertical blank spaces) appearing in the text.

Text alignment options.

In most documents, Center should be saved for headings and subheadings. You might also use it for short passages that need to be set apart from the surrounding text. However, if you need to present a longer passage in the middle of the page, such as a block quote, you should use the indent options instead of alignment.

Align Right, meanwhile, is not used for much at all. There are some rare occasions when it is useful, such as for positioning a caption relative to an image. Usually, though, it just makes things harder to read.

The key with formatting in any document, however, is clarity and consistency. The best alignment option to pick is therefore the one that makes your document as easy to read as possible. If you need a little assistance with your formatting, though, get in touch to see how we can help.

MS-Word is a word processing application that provides many powerful tools, these tools provide a great advantage to the user. It is used to create documents like letters, articles, etc. MS-Word is an interactive and very user-friendly application. It has been developed by Microsoft Corporation Ltd.

Text Alignments

This is one of the features provided by MS-Word to its user. This feature is used by the user to align text or paragraphs so that it gives a good look or a kind of systematic look. There are 4 types of text alignments which are left-aligned, center-aligned, right-aligned, and justified. (All 4 are shown in the below image.

Left-Aligned Text

A paragraph or a text is left-aligned when that paragraph or text is aligned evenly along the left margin of the page in MS-Word. Now, we will learn step by step with the help of a diagram to make a paragraph text left-aligned.

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Left-aligned.

Step 4: Now, go to the “Home” tab and click on that. (As shown in the below image)

Step 5: Now, go to the “Paragraph” section in the “Home” tab and click on the Left-Align text button. 

Step 6: The paragraph text is aligned to left successfully.

Alternate way or using shortcut key:

The shortcut key for Left-Aligned Text is “Ctrl + L”.

Now, we can use a shortcut key for the same. Let us see this also step by step:

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Left-aligned.

Step 4: Now, use the Shortcut key which is “Ctrl +L “.

Step 5: The paragraph text is aligned to left successfully.

Center Aligned Text

A paragraph’s text or a text will be center-aligned if the paragraph or text is in the center of the left and right margins of the page in MS-Word. Now, we will learn step by step with the help of a diagram to make a paragraph text center-aligned.

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Center-aligned.

Step 4: Now, go to “Home” tab and click on that. (As shown in the below image)

Step 5: Now, go to the “Paragraph” section in the “Home” tab and click on the Center-Align text button.

Step 6: The paragraph text is aligned to the center successfully.

Alternate way or using shortcut key:

The shortcut key for Center-Aligned Text is “Ctrl + E”.

Now, we can use a shortcut key for the same. Let us see this also step by step:

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Center-aligned.

Step 4: Now, use the Shortcut key which is “Ctrl +E“.

Step 5: The paragraph text is aligned to the Center successfully.

Right-Aligned Text

A paragraph’s text is said to be right-aligned when it is aligned evenly along the right margin of the page in MS-Word. Now, we will learn step by step with the help of a diagram to make a paragraph text right-aligned.

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Center-aligned.

Step 4: Now, go to the “Home” tab and click on that. (As shown in the below image)

Step 5: Now, go to the “Paragraph” section in the “Home” tab and click on the Right-Align text button.

Step 6: The paragraph text is aligned to the center successfully.

Alternate way or using shortcut key:

The shortcut key for Right-Aligned Text is “Ctrl + R”.

Now, we can use a shortcut key for the same. Let us see this also step by step:

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Right-aligned.

Step 4: Now, use the Shortcut key which is “Ctrl +R“.

Step 5: The paragraph text is aligned to the Right successfully.

Justified Text

A paragraph’s text is said to be justified when it is aligned evenly along both the left side and the right side margins of the page in MS-Word. Now, we will learn step by step with the help of a diagram to make a paragraph text justified.

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make justified text.

Step 4: Now, go to the “Home” tab and click on that. (As shown in the below image)

Step 5: Now, go to the “Paragraph” section in the “Home” tab and click on Justify text button.

Step 6: The paragraph text is aligned to the Justified text successfully.

Alternate way or using shortcut key:

The shortcut key for Justified Text is “Ctrl + J”.

Now, we can use a shortcut key for the same. Let us see this also step by step:

Step 1: First open MS-Word on your PC.

Step 2: Now, Open the document or create a new one in which you want to perform this operation.

Step 3: Now, select the paragraph text which you want to make Justified Text.

Step 4: Now, use the Shortcut key which is “Ctrl +j“.

Step 5: The paragraph text is aligned to the Justified text successfully.

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