Tables are a powerful formatting tool used in many Word documents. Often it is necessary to center information within the cells of a table. There are two ways to center information: horizontally and vertically.
To change the cell margins, we again click in the table and go to the Layout tab on the right. Then click Cell Margins in the Alignment group. In the Table Options dialog that opens, use the spinners to incrementally change each of the four margins, or simply type in the margin that you want into each field; Top, Bottom, Left or Right. The vertical adjustment of the row 'c' is related to the definition of the columntype X which uses the specifier p. You need m for a centered adjustment and b for bottom. This can be achieved by multicolumn, whereby the line width must be saved (I don't know a good solution). Here is an example. I am using C# to programmatically create a word document (Office 16.0 Interop). In the header section of the document I added a table of which one cell contains a picture. However, I can't get the picture to align to the right within the cell. It is left aligned by default (as it should be).
The alignment options let you define the placement of text within a cell on the horizontal axis and on the vertical axis. Select a cell, row, column, or a range. On the Home tab, select Align. Aligning text in your Word 2007 table. Text within a cell can be aligned just like a paragraph: left, center, or right. The text can also be aligned vertically: top, middle, or bottom. Combine these alignment options and you have an explanation for the nine buttons in the Alignment group of the Tool Tables Layout tab.
Horizontal centering is quite simple. 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. Centering text vertically is almost as easy:
Word Table Cell Vertical Alignment System
- Right-click on the cell containing the information you want to vertically center. This displays a Context menu for the cell.
- Choose the Alignment (Word 97) or Cell Alignment (Word 2000 or later) option from the Context menu. This displays a submenu.
- Choose the Center Vertically option.
Display Table Cell Vertical Align
Tables are a powerful formatting tool used in many Word documents. Often it is necessary to center information within the cells of a table. There are two ways to center information: horizontally and vertically.
To change the cell margins, we again click in the table and go to the Layout tab on the right. Then click Cell Margins in the Alignment group. In the Table Options dialog that opens, use the spinners to incrementally change each of the four margins, or simply type in the margin that you want into each field; Top, Bottom, Left or Right. The vertical adjustment of the row 'c' is related to the definition of the columntype X which uses the specifier p. You need m for a centered adjustment and b for bottom. This can be achieved by multicolumn, whereby the line width must be saved (I don't know a good solution). Here is an example. I am using C# to programmatically create a word document (Office 16.0 Interop). In the header section of the document I added a table of which one cell contains a picture. However, I can't get the picture to align to the right within the cell. It is left aligned by default (as it should be).
The alignment options let you define the placement of text within a cell on the horizontal axis and on the vertical axis. Select a cell, row, column, or a range. On the Home tab, select Align. Aligning text in your Word 2007 table. Text within a cell can be aligned just like a paragraph: left, center, or right. The text can also be aligned vertically: top, middle, or bottom. Combine these alignment options and you have an explanation for the nine buttons in the Alignment group of the Tool Tables Layout tab.
Horizontal centering is quite simple. 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. Centering text vertically is almost as easy:
Word Table Cell Vertical Alignment System
- Right-click on the cell containing the information you want to vertically center. This displays a Context menu for the cell.
- Choose the Alignment (Word 97) or Cell Alignment (Word 2000 or later) option from the Context menu. This displays a submenu.
- Choose the Center Vertically option.
Display Table Cell Vertical Align
Word Table Cell Vertical Alignment Diagram
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. This extra spacing before or after affects the centering in the same way that paragraph indents affect horizontal spacing.
