By In Microsoft Word, you can apply alignment that applies to entire paragraphs. Each paragraph has a horizontal alignment, which determines how each line aligns between the right and left margins. The default is left alignment, where each line begins at the left margin. Left alignment is appropriate for most situations.

The Table tab has an alignment section where you can choose how you want to align it. If your table is small, and you want the text to take up the empty space around the table instead of appearing after it, go to the Text Wrapping section, and select ‘Around’.

The alternatives are • Right alignment: Each line ends at the right margin. You might use this to right-align the date in some styles of business letters. • Center alignment: Each line is centered evenly between the margins. You might want to center your name and address on stationery you create. • Justified: Each line has additional space added to it as needed so that it begins at the left margin and ends at the right margin. With justified alignment, all lines of the paragraph except the last one are spaced that way; the final line of the paragraph is left-aligned. If the paragraph consists of only a single line, it’s left-aligned.

Newsletter text is often justified, making for a tidier-looking page. To change one paragraph’s alignment, move the insertion point into it or select any (or all) text within it. Then click the paragraph alignment button you want. To apply a different alignment to multiple paragraphs at once, select multiple paragraphs (or any part of them). Then click the paragraph alignment button you want.

This is a quick and dirty tip on how to have seemingly contradictory alignments on the same line. In Word, this trick is done with tabs.

In a nutshell, you follow these steps: • Make sure the paragraph is formatted as left-aligned. • Choose the Tabs option from the Format menu. Microsoft word for mac. Word displays the Tabs dialog box. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1.

The Tabs dialog box.• Insert a right-aligned tab near the right edge of the line. • Click on Set. • Click on OK. • Type your text. Press the Tab key between the information to be left-aligned and the information you want right-aligned. This trick works great if the information you are formatting is limited to a single line.

As an example, this can easily work for a chapter name and page number in a header or footer. (You know; the chapter name appears at the left and the page number at the right.) If you need to accomplish the same task for multiple lines, then it is best to use a small table with two or three cells. The left-most cell of the table can be for the left-aligned information, and the right-most cell can be used for right-aligned information. The center cell (if you choose to use one) is used for spacing purposes.

This works in Microsoft Word for 2016 for the Mac. I'm working on a resume where I want the employer flush left and the dates of employment flush right, on the same line. Following this advice, here's what I did: * Selected the line I wanted to do this for * Click Format > Tabs * Selected 'right align' and entered where I wanted the right tab to be (in this case, the end of the line, at 6.5') * Clicked OK * Finally, selected all of the space between the employer name and years of employment and clicked 'tab' I did that for every employer, and now all the years line up matchy-matchy. Thanks so much for this tip! I never would have figured this out on my own.