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Text Alignment
Word lets you change the alignment of the text in your paragraphs to look like the common styles you see in print.
Formatting Paragraphs
When you format text, you change the font attributes to make the text look more attractive and to make it easier to read. Another way of doing this is by altering the way paragraphs are positioned in the document.
Text Alignment
Text alignment refers to how the left and right edges of a paragraph line up.
- Left
- aligns the text to the left side of the margin, with uneven margin on the right
- Center
- centers the text between the margins, with uneven margins on both the sides
- Right
- aligns the text to the right side of the margin with uneven margins on the left.
- Justified
- aligns the text on both the left and the right indents. Justified text is commonly used for newspaper columns.
To center-align the title of your article:
1.Select the title, ‘Thrills of White Water River Rafting’.
2.Then click the center-align button.
Activity:
- You are formatting a poem in a magazine, which of these buttons will you use?
Discuss why. - Justify the text in the article using the Justify button.
