Sunday, August 28, 2011

MS Word : Create left and right alignment in single line

One day I needed to create document in Microsoft Word that contains both left and right alignment in one line. I came across several links that explained it, yet it required me to 'pause' a while to follow text instruction. So here is the step by step with images to help others get it quickly, hopefully without 'pause' to think :).

To achieve the left and right alignment on single line, I use the tab stop method that uses tab stop to set the right alignment. There is other method using table but I think using tab stop is simpler.
  1. To get the tab visible, make sure the ruler is turned on by clicking on View tab > Show / Hide group > Check box Ruler.
  2. Set left alignment and start typing the words. To set left alignment go to Home tab > Paragraph > Align left text.
  3. Now open the tab dialog from Page Layout tab > Paragraph group > click on little arrow in the right bottom corner. It will open Paragraph dialog. Click on the Tabs.. button. The tab dialog form is shown


  4. Create new tab stop position e.g. at 15 cm with right alignment, then click Set.

    The result will be like this. Now click OK.
  5. Now the ruler show a new tab stop with right alignment at the position of 15 cm.
  6. Put the cursor to the left of the text that will be at right position, and then hit the keyboard Tab button.

    This is the result