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By default, Word automatically left-justifies a table in your document. If you want to quickly center the table between the page margins, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Table tab of the Table Properties dialog box.
The above steps won't work if you are using Word 97. If that is the case, then you should follow these steps:
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2019-07-09 08:20:08
Christopher Seward Sr.
Word seems to have a bug since forever. If you embed a table from Excel and center it, save the document, and re-open it, it will be left-aligned. I have found no way to prevent this.
2017-02-15 11:08:10
Samiya Wilcox
This did not give me the information that I needed.
2016-03-24 15:53:16
yaga
doesn't work:( I use word 2007 and I have paper size A4 and when I follow the above steps the table is still closer to the left margin. WHY??????
Also - that's only left-right alignment. I'd like the table to be also centered top-bottom. Is there a way to do that?
2015-03-08 20:54:07
I've got three tables on a page. I have them all centered relative to page, but one of them is off center. All the relevant properties on this table are the same as the others.
Can't figure it out.
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