Vertical alignment in textbox in Word 2007

Question

1. In MS Word 2007 I drew a textbox and entered some text.
2. Then I right clicked on textbox and went to format shape
3. Then went to TextBox tab and reduced the top internal margin to 0.1 cm. , but still it seems there is too much space at the top inside the textbox.
4. I am not able to position the text exactly at the vertical middle of textbox. If I choose the auto-rezide option in format Shape, the textBox size is increases automatically but the text remains exactly at vertical and horizontal middle of textbox. but anyhow I need the textbox to be small.

This is very minor but annoying problem.

Solution 1

Have you checked the paragraph formatting of the text to make sure it is not putting a space above or below the paragraph (just check in the usual Paragraph group on the Page Layout ribbon)?

Solution 2

I'm not entirely sure what just happened - cause I've been trying to fix it for ages. But I highlighted the top line (with the space above it), right clicked, went to 'paragraph' and selected 'Set as Default'. And it all went right. Hope this works for you

Comments

[Katrien]

yes... I tried that one also.... still not working