Align or justify text

Text alignment is a paragraph formattingFormatting that controls the appearance of a paragraph — for example, indentation, alignment, line spacing, and pagination. There are several different ways to apply paragraph formatting in Word, including the Paragraph command on the Format menu. Other formatting such as tabs, borders and shading, and bullets and numbering, also affect the appearance of a paragraph. attribute that determines the appearance of the text in a whole paragraph. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), text is aligned with the left margin.

Text alignment buttons

Callout 1 Align text left

Callout 2 Center text

Callout 3 Align text right

Callout 4 Justify text

Do any of the following:

Align text left, center, or right

Justify text