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To align text within a cell, simply select Center in the Home tab... However, if you apply this alignment to a cell in an Excel data table, you may struggle to precisely center the content within the cell. This article will guide you on how to center text in Word and Excel.
Centering Text in Cells: Word
For the example data table below, the data is not positioned in the center of the cells:
When choosing center alignment, the text content may not be perfectly centered within the cell.
To align the center, follow these steps:
- Select the table content requiring alignment -> Layout -> Alignment -> Align Center:
- The result is the data content within each cell of the table being centered:
In addition to the above method, you can perform the following steps: Choose center alignment for the data table -> select the table data needing alignment -> right-click and select Table Properties:
The dialog box appears -> select the Cell tab -> Center -> click OK:
The result is the data table being centered:
Centering Text in Cells in Excel.
- Select the content within the cell to be centered -> go to the Home -> Alignment -> Middle Align (to evenly space the text content above and below the cell):
- Next, choose Center (center-align):
- The result after selecting and combining both alignment styles is:
- Additionally, to center-align a cell, right-click on the content needing alignment -> Format Cell:
- When the dialog box appears, choose the Alignment tab:
+ For Horizontal: choose Center (content centered horizontally, evenly spaced from left to right).
+ For Vertical: choose Center (content centered vertically, evenly spaced from top to bottom).
After making the selections, click OK:
- Here are the results:
Above is a detailed guide on how to center align cells in Word, Excel. In this article, the instructions are based on Word, Excel 2013, and similar steps can be applied to other versions of MS. Wishing you success!
