MS Word Vertical Alignment

JamesCRocks · Apr 8, 2023

Hi,

I have a problem with Word (Office 2021) regarding vertical alignment and it isn't how to align vertically. I can do that simply by aligning a section vertically:

Layout (main tab)
Page Set-up
Layout (dialog tab)
Vertical alignment (with selected text)

I have a very large document, a book with some 360 odd pages, For the most part, the document is top aligned but I want to vertically align the first three title pages (pages 1-3) as well as my section break pages (pages 25, 97, 144 & 249). This is proving problematic and Word appears to get very confused which pages I want vertically aligned and which top aligned.

I've considered simply adding lines to make pages appear to be centred but I can't be sure how Word pages will translate to literal book pages and I guess what I'm after is some kind of workaround.

Any ideas would be appreciated

James

Couriant · Apr 10, 2023

Hmm I see what you mean. I tried it and noticed my page breaks column breaks and such move when use Page Setup... perhaps it can't do it to a document already made? I was able to do some of it by using the 'This Page forward' open but not for individual pages.

JamesCRocks · Apr 10, 2023

I've been advised to use something else, Scribus open source DTP.

James

Couriant · Apr 10, 2023

I am not familiar with that, but it seems that it would help you in your cause.

JamesCRocks · May 6, 2023

Thanks again

James

blues_harp28 · May 6, 2023

Hi JamesCRocks,
I have edited your post as you quoted a link to a cracked version of Microsoft Office 365.
The member you quoted has now been banned.

JamesCRocks · May 6, 2023

blues_harp28 said:
The member you quoted has now been banned.

Understood, though I'm sorry to hear that as he/she actually did help me.

James

MisterEd51 · May 6, 2023

Is this anything like what you wanted?

JamesCRocks · May 6, 2023

Yes, but StacyCruze (banned) already solved it ... the post was deleted so context is missing. As I recall, it was something like this:

In Word 2021:

Select "Layout" tab.
At the beginning of the text to be vertically centred, under "Page Set-up", select "Breaks" then "Next Page". Repeat at the end of the text to be vertically centred.
Inside the text to be vertically centred, under "Page Set-up", select the lower right arrow to open the Page Setup dialog.
Within the Page Setup dialog, select the "Layout" tab.
In the "Page" section, set "Vertical alignment" to "Centre" and click "OK".

I might be wrong

Thanks

James

MS Word Vertical Alignment

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