Dragged out type rectangle, set centre horz, how to I centre vertically?

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Jun 4, 2008
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The answer to this must be so obvious but after hours I still have not found how to centre text within the text box rectangle that I drag to size after hiting the Type icon.

I want to centre the whole selectionof text within that box so its bang in the middle.

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KatWoman
Jun 4, 2008
"Tom" wrote in message
The answer to this must be so obvious but after hours I still have not found how to centre text within the text box rectangle that I drag to size after hiting the Type icon.

I want to centre the whole selectionof text within that box so its bang in the middle

look at the top bar after you choose the text tool
there are options that look like paragraph lines left, right, center

for more text options open the character palette

kerning, leading, spacing between lines, all caps, sub & superscript distortion oh so many choices
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Tom
Jun 4, 2008
look at the top bar after you choose the text tool
there are options that look like paragraph lines left, right, center
for more text options open the character palette

kerning, leading, spacing between lines, all caps, sub & superscript distortion oh so many choices Indeed, I see so many options onm the pullout of the paragraph dialog, checked the cvharacter and its pullout too.

I just can’t see anything that will do vertical centering.
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Mike
Jun 5, 2008
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:43:42 -0700, Tom wrote
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look at the top bar after you choose the text tool
there are options that look like paragraph lines left, right, center
for more text options open the character palette

kerning, leading, spacing between lines, all caps, sub & superscript distortion oh so many choices Indeed, I see so many options onm the pullout of the paragraph dialog, checked the cvharacter and its pullout too.

I just can’t see anything that will do vertical centering.

Chuckle. Try reading the manual.

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john
Jun 5, 2008
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:43:42 +0100, Tom wrote:

look at the top bar after you choose the text tool
there are options that look like paragraph lines left, right, center
for more text options open the character palette

kerning, leading, spacing between lines, all caps, sub & superscript distortion oh so many choices Indeed, I see so many options onm the pullout of the paragraph dialog, checked the cvharacter and its pullout too.

I just can’t see anything that will do vertical centering.

I agree it is not eay to find even if it can be done the help page implies it is not possible by a simple click of a button. I quote.

You can align type to one edge of a paragraph (left, center, or right for horizontal type; top, center, or bottom for vertical type). Alignment options are available only for paragraph type.

That seems to sa you can only vertically centre vertical text <grin> There will be work rounds though.

By the way your post will probably get a reply from a nutter called Arrtist Mike telling you you to find out for yourself. which is typical of him.

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