text alignement in cells - table - Word 2007

I am currently having a problem with trying to get the text to align central
to the cell (with equal space above and below the text) . . . no matter where
I ask the alignement to be placed the text it is always at the top of the
cell, I can get it centred in the box, left or right but it stays at the top
of the cell . . . I have the paragraph marks and other hidden formatting
symbols on view and no extra spaces have crept in so I am at a loss as to
know what is wrong.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Under the Table menu (or whatever the 2007 name for this is - Group?) is
there not an option to align vertically for the cells? It used to be a group
of nine icons covering all variants.
Also I would check the space after Paragraph attribute as the text may have
a very large spacing that is affecting the alignment.
Hope this helps
DeanH


"svanesca" wrote:

I am currently having a problem with trying to get the text to align central
to the cell (with equal space above and below the text) . . . no matter where
I ask the alignement to be placed the text it is always at the top of the
cell, I can get it centred in the box, left or right but it stays at the top
of the cell . . . I have the paragraph marks and other hidden formatting
symbols on view and no extra spaces have crept in so I am at a loss as to
know what is wrong.
Any help greatly appreciated.

With the cursor in the table, the Table Tools (Design and Layout) ribbon
options are shown. Select the Layout ribbon and there's a section for
Alignment. You need one of the vertical Centre options depending whether you
want Left, Right or Centred line of text.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" wrote in message
...
Under the Table menu (or whatever the 2007 name for this is - Group?) is
there not an option to align vertically for the cells? It used to be a
group
of nine icons covering all variants.
Also I would check the space after Paragraph attribute as the text may
have
a very large spacing that is affecting the alignment.
Hope this helps
DeanH


"svanesca" wrote:

I am currently having a problem with trying to get the text to align
central
to the cell (with equal space above and below the text) . . . no matter
where
I ask the alignement to be placed the text it is always at the top of the
cell, I can get it centred in the box, left or right but it stays at the
top
of the cell . . . I have the paragraph marks and other hidden formatting
symbols on view and no extra spaces have crept in so I am at a loss as to
know what is wrong.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank you DeanH !
Of course... you hit upon the problem with the paragraph spacing !
I was getting too hung up on problems with Word 2007 rather than thinking
about likely causes (same as would happen in 2003) However to overcome the
problem before a solution was offered I just used the format painter from an
earlier table .


"DeanH" wrote:

Under the Table menu (or whatever the 2007 name for this is - Group?) is
there not an option to align vertically for the cells? It used to be a group
of nine icons covering all variants.
Also I would check the space after Paragraph attribute as the text may have
a very large spacing that is affecting the alignment.
Hope this helps
DeanH


"svanesca" wrote:

I am currently having a problem with trying to get the text to align central
to the cell (with equal space above and below the text) . . . no matter where
I ask the alignement to be placed the text it is always at the top of the
cell, I can get it centred in the box, left or right but it stays at the top
of the cell . . . I have the paragraph marks and other hidden formatting
symbols on view and no extra spaces have crept in so I am at a loss as to
know what is wrong.
Any help greatly appreciated.