How to center text in shapes

how to center text in shapes. specifically circles. I want text to be centered directly in the middle

A lot depends on what you mean by centered, the number of lines of text, the actual font, and whether there are descenders.
Using vertical justification set to centered may or may not work for you, depending on the above factors, as it depends on the baseline, I believe, rather than the acutal glyph dimensions. You could try adding baseline shift, I suppose, to make fine vertical adjustments, or you can bite the bullet and use the old-fashioned method of two frames.

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Center text inside shape in titler?

Is there any way to center text inside a shape within the titler? For example let's say I use the Rounded Rectangle Tool to create a shape and put it in the lower third of title area, then use the Text Tool to type in a line of text. For now I'm having to manually position the text over the shape. Curious if there is anyway to get the equivalent of the Center buttons for a text on shape situation? If my question / situation doesn't make sense here, I can post a screen shot. Thanks.

Once a post has a Reply, the OP cannot Edit, or Delete it - only a MOD can do so.
However, as others might encounter the same issue, and could learn from this thread, I think that it would be good to keep it up.
Yes, both Objects (whether Text, Shape, etc.) need to be Selected, to use the Alignment Tools. Glad that you found that.
Good luck,
Hunt

How to center text in Pages to show correctly on iBook Reader

Hi,
First, I have to say that I posted the same question on ''Creating ePubs'' discussioun page but nobody could help.
I am trying something really easy but could not solve it. Hope someone can help.
Ok, I know that if I choose ''Chapte Name'' as a pharagraph style, iBook reader automatically puts it into a new page, so the new page starts with the chapter name on top. I dont have any problems with my chapters.
However, I want my book to start with a page that has a brief info about the author. I want this info in the middle of the page (also centered in the middle). Than I want to go to the second page with a ''dedication'' part where I write my thanks to people. I also want this in the middle and centered. And finally I want to add my book title and author name together on the 3rd page. After that the chapters will start.
So, as I told you, the chapters work just fine. But when I try to center the text in the first 3 pages, (I press return several times on my keybord to do it) the pages interwine with each other. For example, the last part of page 2 goes on top of page 3.
I think this happens because I press the return key to center the texts. So, is there a way to lock texts to the pages where they belong to prevent them to interwine with other pages even if I press return to center the text
OR
Is there another way to center text to prevent them to interwine with other pages...
Thank you

One of the consequences of working all night on this was that there is errata, or improved insight.
As I mentioned previously, each of the four document parts that I tested is in its own section. This means that each of the first three document icons, in thumbnail view, has its own distinct yellow race track around it. The chapter/body text is in a fourth multi-page section.
On the first page, with invisibles and layout mode shown, I have a ¶ (pilcrow) showing on line 1, column 1. If I place the cursor before this mark, the text inspector shows the following:
Style is body
Character spacing is 0%
Line spacing is single (1)
Before paragraph is set to 172 pt.
After paragraph is set to 6 pt.
Now, if I place the cursor before the About the Author string:
Ruler set to 1.6 inches
Style is Heading 1
Character spacing is 0%
Line Spscing is single (1)
Before paragraph is set to 196 pt
After paragraph is set to 6 pt
Place cursor between end of Author and Pilcrow and press return.
With the cursor before the author description:
Style is body
My font choice was Baskerville, Regular 12 pt.
Left ruler set to 1.6 inches. Right ruler to 6.2 inches.
Character spacing is -4%
Line-height is set at multiple (1.2)
Before paragraph is 0
After paragraph is 12 pt.
Position cursor between last character and pilcrow - press return.
Insert section break
This is all there is too my first page:
For the Dedication page:
Line 1, Col 1 has the pilcrow and style is body
Character spacing is 0%
Line height is single (1)
Before and After paragraph are set to 0
With the cursor just before Dedication:
Left ruler set at 2.6 inches
Style is Heading 1
Character spacing is 0
Line height is 1.5
Before paragraph set to 190 pt
After paragraph set to 0 (yeah, raised my eyebrow too)
Place cursor between trailing n and pilcrow, press return.
With cursor on first line of names, just prior to first character:
Style is body text with Baskerville Regular 12 pt override.
Text justification is left.
Left ruler is set to 2.9 inches
Right ruler is set to 6.7 inches
Character spacing is 0
Line-height is 1.2
Before and after paragraph are 0
Insert cursor before last Pilcrow and press return
On the next line, there is a Pilcrow at col 1, place the cursor in front of it.
Style is body style
Character spacing is 0
Line-height is multiple (1.2)
Before paragraph is 0
After paragraph is 216 pt.
Press return to set the jump.
Insert section break
You can likely insert step 14 at step 7 and skip 9 - 13. It was late.
The Dedication page looks like this:
Hopefully, you missed something, or it wasn't sufficiently explained previously. I hope you can duplicate the above and discover unique, centered content in your ePub.

How to center text in Pages to correctly show on iBook reader

Hi,
I am trying something really easy but could not solve it. Hope someone can help.
Ok, I know that if I choose ''Chapte Name'' as a pharagraph style, iBook reader automatically puts it into a new page, so the new page starts with the chapter name on top. I dont have any problems with my chapters.
However, I want my book to start with a page that has a brief info about the author. I want this info in the middle of the page (also centered in the middle). Than I want to go to the second page with a ''dedication'' part where I write my thanks to people. I also want this in the middle and centered. And finally I want to add my book title and author name together on the 3rd page. After that the chapters will start.
So, as I told you, the chapters work just fine. But when I try to center the text in the first 3 pages, (I press return several times on my keybord to do it) the pages interwine with each other. For example, the last part of page 2 goes on top of page 3.
I think this happens because I press the return key to center the texts. So, is there a way to lock texts to the pages where they belong to prevent them to interwine with other pages even if I press return to center the text
OR
Is there another way to center text to prevent them to interwine with other pages...
Thank you

You could try asking in the Pages forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages

How to center Text Box on Web Page? -- Web dev with Word 2013

I'm trying to assist a user who wants to use Word 2013 for simple web page development.
There are many tools but they want to use Word 2013.
Actually have it working by saving the Word 2013 files as web pages... like index.htm, about.htm, etc.
The problem is when we use the "Insert" tab in Word to create a "Text Box" or a "Shape" ...
And align it centered on the page... it looks fine in Word but when we open it with a web browser the "Text Box" or "shape" are no longeer centered.
We thought we had it fixed by making the "Text Box" Layout Options "In Line with Text" but again... looks fine in Word but not in a web browser.
The question: How can we get a "Text Box" in Word 2013 to appear centered on a web page?
thanks for any help.

Hi:
For webpage design, I would suggest customized form under develop tab on the Ribbon over insert object directly. I tested from my side, using customized form will lock the object position on the
page.

Can't figure out how to center text in text box

I've made a text box over a line.
How can I center the text in the text box?
Please advise.
Thanks

I just talked to tech support and this is what they said to do. For example.
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Goto the toolbar at the top and click on window then
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How to center text in DIV

Newbie with a really simply question. How would one center this text smack dab in the middle of this DIV (assuming that this DIV were already centered on the page?

If you were doing it by hand in Source View, you would add text-align:center; to the css for the div.
From Design View, highlight the text and click the Align Center button in the Properties tab.
EDIT: That would be for horizontal alignment. To align the text vertically (this only works if the text is on one line) you can set the line-height of the div to the same as the height of the div in the css...
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How to center text in javafx interface

Hi, first of all, sorry for my bad English... I'm Italian.. :)
I'd like to center a Text in a Scene, but I can't.
I tried with this code:
Text {
x: 0
y: 450;
font: Font { size: 30 }
fill: Color.web("#337799")
content: bind "bla bla ";
textAlignment: TextAlignment.CENTER
But it doesn't work... Do you know how can I do to it?

A classical way, hinted by a_b_g, is to use the size of the text control (given by its bounds) to position it in an absolute way (eg. using translateX).
That's what I did in the past.
Today, I would prefer to use the Stack layout, which handles nicely such computations.

How to Center Text in Menu and Left Align in Sub Menu

Hi - I'm looking to Center the text in the main menu of a Spry Menu in DW CS 5.5 but left align the sub menu's.
If someone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
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J

See here http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/menubar/CenteringHorizontalMenuBarSample.h tml
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How to center text within image

If you go to http://www.terwax.com/bf2.html , youll see text in the left side. It took me enough time to center the image. Now that i created ap tag within div, i was able to put text but in every browser its different. Below is the code. Please help me find easy way that can center the text within image.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Terwax - Battlefield</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
     background-color: #333;
     height:inherit;
     width:inherit;
     margin-left: auto;
     margin-right: auto;
     text-align: center;
#apDiv1 {
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     width:753px;
     height:110px;
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     left: 286px;
     top: 174px;
     overflow: visible;
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</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
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    <div id="apDiv1">Thanks for coming to the site. I am currently working on it. This isn't finished yet and a lot of graphics to come! Keep checking back and if you don't like or like something, make sure to hit me an email at [email protected] .</div>
</div>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

Terwax.com wrote:
That code didn't fix the problem
It just moved the text right to the bottom of page. Last time i did this, the text was static. It couldn't be highlighted.
I know there are tutorials, but i just need help with this as i can finish the website. I am doing all the tutorials currently (lynda.com), but its a long way from now and will be happy if someone can help me get the text in the grey box rather than falling out of it.
Try the code below in IE9. It should work if the browser is backwards compliant. I'll be amzed if it doesn't. Unfortunately I don't have IE9 available to test in. Didn't even know it was available. Is it a beta version of the browser which maybe hasn't been fully tested yet?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Terwax - Battlefield</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    background-color: #333;
#imageWrapper {
position: relative;
width: 1288px;
margin: 0 auto;
#apDiv1 {
    position:absolute;
    width:753px;
    left: 270px;
    top: 174px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="imageWrapper">
    <img src="images/import.png" alt="back" width="1288" height="992" align="middle" />
    <div id="apDiv1">Thanks for coming to the site. I am currently working on it. This isn't finished yet and a lot of graphics to come! Keep checking back and if you don't like or like something, make sure to hit me an email at [email protected] .</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

How to center text in column matrix?

Hi, i need your help please ...
I need center numbers in column matrix!
Could someone show me an example, please?

Thanks for answering!
Well, I think it's not important but my boss says that all numbers have to be in the center... just that
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How to center text in JTable?

Simple question.. but I�m not finding....

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=753164
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=257&threadID=515731
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Vertically center text on a page-document wide

Anyone know how to center text vertically on FrameMaker pages? (There is a way to do this, right?)
Thanks!

Nope, not document wide. You could do it manually on a page by page basis or if the content is suffciently small that you can make each page a fixed height row of a table you could use the Table middle setting for the paragraphs.
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Encircle text or shape

How to encircle text or shape in PS Elements 11 (Dutch version)?
Followed instruction on help pages and read forums.
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How to solve this ?
Reg. Peter

Hello Barbara,
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"Vertical Align Center" Text and a Shape

Hi designers,
I wonder if anyone could give me a hand with aligning text and shapes? I would like to align a number to the center of a circle. "Horizontal Align Center" works well. "Vertical Align Center", however, does not yield the desired result. The number turns out to be higher in the cycle (see figure below). The distance from the top of the circle to the top of the number zero, X, is shorter than the distance between the bottom of the circle and the bottom of the number zero. Is it possible to equal these two distances?
Figure 1: The Outcome of Vertical Align Center
Thanks,
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Hi Mylenium,
Thank you very much for you very prompt reply, which solves the problem very effectively.
If you do not mind, I have got two further questions.
Firstly, is there an option similar to "Align to Path: Centre" under "Type on a Path Options" that changes how text is aligned?
Secondly, does InDesign offer the aforementioned function?
I sometimes label a large quantity of locations with alphanumeric characters, which are subject to frequent changes, and therefore would like to preserve the text if possible. I have heard that manipulating text is InDesign's area of expertise. If this function is not available in Illustrator but offered by InDesign, I can jot down another reason for acquiring the latter and split the workflow in the future.
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