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Aligning Paragraphs in a Macro

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated July 28, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021

Long-time Word users know that if you are formatting the paragraphs in your document, the Home tab of the ribbon includes some great tools you can use, or (better still) you can use styles to do the formatting. What if you have a need to align a paragraph within a macro you are writing, though? What do you do then?

Actually, aligning paragraphs within a macro is quite easy, requiring only a single line. Here's an example of how you would, for instance, center-align a paragraph:

Selection.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter

Notice that the Alignment property is set to a preset Word value, in this case wdAlignParagraphCenter. There are a number of different values you can use in your alignment:

wdAlignParagraphLeft to align the paragraph to the left margin.
wdAlignParagraphCenter to align the paragraph to the center of the print area.
wdAlignParagraphRight to align the paragraph to the right margin.
wdAlignParagraphJustify to align full lines within the paragraph with both left and right margins.

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WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (12039) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Aligning Paragraphs in a Macro.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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What is eight minus 8?

2021-04-13 15:30:42

Kashmira

Thanks. Will surely try.

2021-04-13 09:28:32

Andrew

Kashmira, it's hard to tell what you're asking because the system is making all your texts look the same.

I would suggest you experiment with using tabs to get the alignment you desire--tabs let you also align to them with left, right, and center alignment.

Andy.

2021-04-12 18:56:20

Kashmira

hi
I have a paragraphs like these
1 55050UP 4009 USN 4599 CAS 1 13 I 182 100 3500 09APR21 0 0 B F
COMMENTS: TORONTO CA MIX SC123456
1 55050UP 4009 USN 4599 CAS 1 13 I 182 100 3500 09APR21 0 0 B F
COMMENTS: TORONTO CA MIX SC123456

I want 1st line aligned to 2nd line, I tried Justify , left position. But it is not working.
I want aligned like below. Any suggestion. I get this only when I do manually aligning paragraph to Justify.
Also I want automatically adding space between 2 paragraph 6 point , but keeping 2 line together. 6 point.

1 55050UP 4009 USN 4599 CAS 1 13 I 182 100 3500 09APR21 0 0 B F
COMMENTS: TORONTO CA MIX SC123456

1 55050UP 4009 USN 4599 CAS 1 13 I 182 100 3500 09APR21 0 0 B F
COMMENTS: TORONTO CA MIX SC123456

Thanks

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