Alignment
The Alignment (also can be written as Alignment) of a cell, paragraph
or tab-stop
, refers to the way in which text is arranged in a space based on
an imaginary line. It can also be known as a "flush" such as a "flush-right"
or "flush-left."
These text alignments are useful in writing documents with certain standards in style and formatting. For example some letter formats need the address aligned to the right of the document, while the greeting and body of the text aligned to the left. Titles and others like it are generally center aligned, while some newspaper formats prefer text to be justified so that the document looks clean and aligned.
The most common Alignments are Left, Right, Center and Justified.
- Left - When Left Aligned, text will arrange themselves to not allow spaces from it and an imaginary line on the left of the document or cell.
- Right - When Right Aligned, text will arrange themselves to not allow spaces from it and an imaginary line on the right of the document or cell.
- Centered - When Centered, text will arrange themselves always at the center of the document or cell following an imaginary line there.
- Justified - When Justified, text will arrange themselves to not allow spaces in between it and two imaginary lines at the right and left edges of the document or cell.
For cells and images, there is also the concept of vertical alignments, which places text or images either at the top, the bottom or vertically centered in the cell or document.
Several Open Office applications let you format text within paragraph or cells to follow a certain alignment.
The default alignment in most circumstances is the Left Alignment.
Using Alignments
The following screencasts demonstrate how to use alignments:
- Change alignment to center
- Change alignment to justified
- Change alignment to left
- Change alignment to right
- Format cell alignment center
- Format cell alignment justified
- Format cell alignment left
- Format cell alignment right
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