Lost buttons on property inspector in CS4

I was previously using Dreamweaver CS3. I am testing
Dreamweaver CS4 but I have noticed a few missing buttons on my
property inspector when dealing with regular text within a web
page. I do not see the align left, center, and right buttons.
Is there a way to add them to the property inspector so that
I can get to them faster?

The PI in CS4 is in two parts. Click the CSS button and you
will see =
the remainder of the buttons. CS4 now correctly uses CSS
values and not =
deprecated html tags.
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>I was previously using Dreamweaver CS3. I am testing
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> have noticed a few missing buttons on my property
inspector when =
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> regular text within a web page. I do not see the align
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> Is there a way to add them to the property inspector so
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"Johnny the boy" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I am a confused.
>
> You say for me to use CSS rules instead. So if the body
of my div called
> content is 10pt by default but I want to change one line
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>
>
>

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