How do I vertically align paragraphs in a page?

I am new to Pages, and I've run across a problem that is really aggravating because it should not be rocket science... but it seems to be, at least for me.
I need to center the text on the page so there is equal white space above and below it.
In Word, you select File --> Page Setup --> Layout --> Vertical Alignment and choose "Center." Done.
How do you do this Pages? I've scoured the manual and online help and can find nothing on this.
Thanks in advance!

Note that the Vertical Alignment does not apply to the Text Layer of a Word Processing document, just to the text in objects that accept text within the shape. For your application you would probably want to add a text box, centered on your page, to hold the text that you want to center.
Regards,
Jerry
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"davidhelp" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have a table with 3 columns with one row above and
below
> Text in left and right column is aligned to the top but
in the middle
> column
> the text will not align to the top. In IE it is correct
but in Firefox 1.6
> it
> is down by 1 line
>
> How to correct?
>
> David
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
> <HTML
> xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><HEAD><TITLE>BustedComputer</TITLE>
> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=800
align=center border=0>
> <TBODY>
> <TR>
> <TD colSpan=3 bgcolor="#6699FF">Top</TD>
> </TR>
> <TR>
> <TD width="150" bgcolor="#6699FF"><a
href="#">leftside</a></TD>
> <TD bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><p>Contrary to popular
belief, Lorem Ipsum is
> not
> simply
> random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin
literature
> from
> 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.<br>
> <br>
> Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of
"de Finibus
> Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by
Cicero,
> written
> in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of
ethics, very
> popular
> during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum,
"Lorem
> ipsum
> dolor
> sit amet..", comes from a line in section
1.10.32.</p>
> </TD>
> <TD width="150"
bgcolor="#FFFFCC">rightside</TD>
> </TR>
> <TR>
> <TD colSpan=3 bgcolor="#6699FF">Bottom</TD>
>
</TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>
>
>

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