The 'Text' tab allows you to change the font, font style, font size, and text color. The 'Paragraph' tab allows you to change the text alignment, add indents, bullet and numbered lists, as well as change the line spacing. Open MS Word and insert a picture in the document. Downloading iexplorer for mac. You can insert a picture by dragging & dropping it, or you can use the Insert menu. Next, insert a shape from the Insert menu. Right now, when you try to select both the shape and the picture, it won’t work. This is where the small, extra step comes in. Click the Format tab (the purple contextual tab that appears next to the Home tab), and then under Text Box, click Change text alignment within the text box. Click the alignment option that you want. Click the Format tab (the purple contextual tab that appears next to the Home tab), and then under Text Box, click Change text alignment within the text box. Click the alignment option that you want. I have several lines with text in Word 2010. (in different areas). I need the left side to align to the left side of the page, and the right side to align to the right side of the page.
You may already know how to align text on the left center or right part of the page in Microsoft Word. But what if you wanted to use more than one type of alignment on the same line? For example, in college many of us had to write paper and label it with our name, the date, and the class name.

One way is to type everything and play around with inserting extra spaces until it all 'looks good.' But this is an inefficient and imprecise process. Let's take a look at how to do this simply and make our documents look polished using 'tab stops.' When you are typing in Word and press the 'tab' button, you will usually see a noticeable amount of space inserted before the next thing you type.
By default, the program sets alignment markers every 0.5' horizontally. Between each of the words above, a 'tab' was entered instead of a 'space.' Notice how in each case, the line moved horizontally to the next 0.5' mark ('is' at 0.5', 'an' at 1.0', etc.). You can manually set tab stops to control the horizontal alignment of your text. At the upper left of your document, next to the ruler, you should see this icon: By using that button and the ruler, you can automatically create tab stops wherever you like. First you need to be be familiar with the different tab stop symbols: Symbol Tab Stop Type Left - Aligns all text with the leftmost part located at the tab stop. Center - Aligns text so that the horizontal center of the text is even with the tab stop.