Centering text within a table in Contribute

I'm using Contribute on a PC doing testing for a professor's
website. Per my suggestion, the professor purchased Contribute to
edit his pages. Pages are using a table to format the page.
http://www.iun.edu/~edupjb/teaching/E340/course_description.shtml
Within a table Contribute will not let us center text. Since
a cell is used to put the main content, we cannot center the cell.
If another table is added inside the cell, even if we try to use
cell properties, which we can change to center, the text inside the
table does not center. The align icons can not be selected.
Any ideas?

With the design of the pages, the right area is where the
content is located which is in one cell. Centering one or a few
lines within the content area is not working within Contribute. The
whole content area is not wanted to be centered just specified
lines within the td. Centering in DreamWeaver or Microsoft Front
Page are inside a td is possible. Contribute is not letting us
center if trying to do so from within a table.
Thank you for your suggestion. I'll have to try doing it
through css. Since Dreamweaver and Front Page can center within a
table, I don't like having a css definition for something should be
cared for in the program. It would be a class of Center, which the
program should be able to center We have about less than 10 people
using contribute and others mostly using Front Page or Dreamweaver.
I'll keep testing.
Could this be a bug in Contribute?

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