How to Align Text in a Word Document? (Left, Center, Right)

In this tutorial, you will learn how to align text in a Word document to give you a clean, organized, and professional appearance according to your needs. Text alignment helps you to place your text left, center, right, or justified on the page. It makes reading easier, and visually your text appears in the document. Microsoft Word offers several alignment options, such as left, center, right, and justified, which can be applied to headings, paragraphs, or entire documents.

This guide is ideal for beginners and explains how to use left, center, right, and justify text alignments effectively to improve document layout for assignments, reports, letters, and other written materials.

How to Align Text in a Word Document?

Follow these detailed steps to align text in a Word document:

1. Open your Word document
   Launch Microsoft Word and open the document that contains the text you want to align.
2. Select the text or paragraph
   Highlight the text you want to align.
   • If you want to align a whole paragraph, simply click anywhere inside the paragraph.
   • To align the entire document, press Ctrl + A to select all text.
3. Go to the Home tab
   Click on the Home tab in the top menu bar.
4. Locate the Paragraph group
   In the Home tab, find the Paragraph group where alignment options are displayed.
5. Choose an alignment option
   Click one of the following buttons:
   • Align Left—Aligns text to the left margin
   • Center – Centers text between the left and right margins
   • Align Right—Aligns text to the right margin
   • Justify—Aligns text evenly along both left and right margins

How to Align the Text Left?

1. Select the text that you want to align left.
2. Choose the Home tab.
3. In the Paragraph group, select Align Left.

How to Align the Text Right?

1. Select the text that you want to align right.
2. Choose the Home tab.
3. In the Paragraph group, select Align Right.

How to Center Text in Word?

1. Select the text you want to center. 
2. Choose the Home tab.
3. In the Paragraph group, select Center.

How to Justify Text in Word?

“Justify” means to allocate your text evenly on both sides of the page margins. Justifying covers each line of your text from the left margin to the right margin.

1. Select the text you want to justify. 
2. Choose the Home tab.
3. In the Paragraph group, select Justify.

Text Alignment Shortcuts:

• Ctrl + L → Align Left
• Ctrl + E → Center
• Ctrl + R → Align Right
• Ctrl + J → Justify