How to Align Text Vertically and Horizontally in InDesign

InDesign is a complex desktop publishing application developed by Adobe Systems that enables users to create posters, flyers, brochures and even magazines for clients as well as for various marketing purposes. With InDesign, you can insert text in your documents and customize it in a number of ways. To maintain consistency in your business documents, you may decide to align the text vertically and horizontally with the edges of the text box. Text alignment in Adobe InDesign is straightforward and the various alignment settings are relatively easy to master.

Align Text Horizontally

Launch Adobe InDesign and open the document containing text that you wish to align.

Press "T" to open the Type Tool or select it from the toolbox.

Click and drag on one of the pages to insert a text box and then type the text that you want to align horizontally.

Press "Ctrl-A" to select all of the text in the text box.

Click the "Align Left," "Align Center," "Align Right" or "Align Towards Spine" button near the top of the InDesign window to align the text horizontally with one of the edges of the text box.

Click the "Justify With Last Line Aligned Left," "Justify With Last Line Aligned Center," "Justify All Lines" or "Align Away From Spine" button near the top of the InDesign window to align the text horizontally with both edges of the text box.

Press "Ctrl-S" to save the document.

Align Text Vertically

Create a text box, type the text that you want to align vertically, and press "Ctrl-B" to open the Text Frame Options window. Alternatively, click "Object" and choose "Text Frame Options" from the menu.

Select "Top," "Center," "Bottom" or "Justify" in the Align box (in the Vertical Justification section) to align the text vertically. The first three options align the text with a single edge of the text box, while "Justify" aligns the text with both edges.

Click "OK" to apply the new settings, align the text and close the Text Frame Options window.

Press "Ctrl-S" to save your InDesign document.