The best resource I know on this is Stephen Few's Show Me The Numbers and all the discussion this answer is paraphrasing that book.
#Table how to right justify in word code#
This table is much more usable as follows: company status value code units It implicitly looks like a dimension, because it's aligned the same as company. It's hard to tell if the status is something you're supposed to be comparing or something you're supposed to be scanning down. The end result is something like this: company status value code units So if you have some columns left aligned and some columns right aligned, the eye tries to mentally group all the left aligned ones and all the right aligned ones. The important points here is that metrics aren't normally scanned down, they're normally compared and the human eye tends to pick out visual inconstancies. But what if some of my metrics aren't numbers? Right aligning them here decreases the cognitive load needed to compare the figures within a column. The 7 in 567, 2 in 12 and 4 in 4444 all represent a single digit. Instead when they're right aligned line this: Dimension number cost But they're all lined up against each other as if they're directly comparible. In this case, in the number column, the first digit in row 1 represents 500, the first digit in item2 represents 10 and the first digit in row 3 represents 4000. If you don't do that, you end up with this sort of problem: Dimension number cost Metrics should be right aligned, because that aids comparison. Here's a table with the metrics highlighted: Dimension number cost These are on the right hand side of the table, and their major use case is that the user is trying to compare them against the same metric in other rows. These are the figures or categories that belong to each row. Here's a table with the dimensions highlighted Dimension number cost These are your dimensions, the user is usually scanning down them to find specific rows.īecause their primary use case is scanning to find a single item they should be left aligned and ideally sorted into a sensible order. In a normal table, you have one to two columns on the left hand side of your table that are categorising the data into rows. This is an important distinction in design of useable tables, so it's worth digging into it a little. Columns should be aligned according to role, not typeĬolumns can either be a dimension something you look up against, or metrics something you're looking up If you use different alignments for different labels you risk making it hard to identify which data the label is supposed to be aligned with. You must use the Align Table function in the table on Word.Labels should be aligned exactly the same as the column below them. However, the way to align the text is not the same as when we align it in the table. The manipulation of content on Word is a simple operation and performed regularly, as we work on Micorsoft's office tools. If you want to align the content in the Excel worksheet box, click on the Home tab and then click on the 2 centered icons horizontally and vertically as shown below. Īs a result, we will see that the contents of the cell are aligned correctly as shown below.Īlternatively, we can use the other method to highlight the content, then click on the Layout tab, then look at the Alignment section and also click on the square icon in the middle. Here we will choose the middle position by clicking on the square root icon. A list of different locations appears in the table on Word to adjust the contents of the table. We have to use the Align Table function available in Word.įirst, highlight the content that needs to be centered, then right-click and select Cell Alignment. To be able to edit the content in the middle of the cell, you cannot press Enter to get down the line because this is a non-standard, incorrect way.
#Table how to right justify in word how to#
How to type pages in Word 2007 from any pageīelow is an example Word table to align content to the middle of the cell.In the popped out Tabs dialog box, do the. In the Paragraph dialog box, select Left from the Alignment drop down, and then, click Tabs button, see screenshot: 3. Create a list of tables in Word automatically In the Word file that you want to insert the text and align to left and right, and then, click Home, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph Settings icon, see screenshot: 2.So how to align correctly in the table cell on Word? The following article of Network Administrator will guide you to read how to center the box on Word. These functions only help the user to center the text horizontally, while the vertical is still indented above or below. However, if working with Word tables, when the crossword is wide and high, the above functions will no longer work and are irrational. Alternatively you can use the keyboard shortcut to center the center as Ctrl + E. We just need to select the Align center function, left right. When working with document content on Word, manipulating text such as center, left, etc.