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Wednesday 28 May 2008

Keyboard shortcut of the week: align, centre and justify

By default, all text in Microsoft Word is aligned to the left (except if the default language is set to Arabic or another script that reads right to left). You can change the alignment of the current paragraph by clicking on these buttons on the Formatting toolbar.


But as you have probably guesed by now, you can also change the alignment of the current paragraph using keyboard commands. The following shortcuts also apply to PowerPoint (but, as with many of these keyboard shortcuts, not to Excel).

Align Right
To align the text to the right, hold down Ctrl and press R.

Align Left
To align the text back to the left, hold down Ctrl and press L.

Centre Text
To centre the text, hold down Ctrl and press E.

Justify Text
To justify the text (that is, to make it fill a line - as with a newspaper article), hold down Ctrl and press J.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

thats really useful tips, thanks for sharing with us and keep your good jobs

infinitewebprofit said...

Nice tips!!
This Word tips is very useful because everytime we use MSWord, we frequently deal with this paragraph alignment.
Thanks for these simple but useful tips.

Borkiman said...

Thank you all for taking time to comment and the kind words.

K

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the tips; so much to learn and you do a great job of making it simple to understand.

Pradeep Kumar said...

yeah shortcuts help a lot....I also use these when I do sumthing....but I forget some of them...
n need to lookup for them....