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The red lines on either side indicate the left and right margins.

Figure A shows an example of all four.įigure A Word offers four types of alignment. You’ll find them in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. Learning how to use more than one kind of alignment in the body of a document isn’t all too difficult, but first, you’ll need to understand Word’s different alignment options: It’s important to note this technique isn’t appropriate for the browser edition: It won’t let you set a tab, and it won’t display pre-existing tabs correctly within the context of this technique.įor an additional visual to follow along with, you can download our demonstration file here. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do so by using alignment tabs.įor this tutorial, I’ll be using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can also use earlier versions of Word. Somewhere along the line, you might have learned how to force the issue by inserting a table, but that’s not the only way to align text in the same line to both the left and right margins. Unfortunately, if you’ve tried to apply separate right and left alignments to the same line of text in the body of a document, you’ll quickly learn the task is impossible. Microsoft 365: A side-by-side analysis w/checklist (TechRepublic Premium) These alignment configurations are easy to accomplish in the header because those sections have special attributes, and you can learn more about those particular attributes by reading How to align header or footer content to the left and right margins in Microsoft Word. You’ve probably seen a document or two with a header or footer that has left and right-aligned text. This article covers how to do so without using a table. You can easily apply left and right alignment formatting in Microsoft Word.