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How to fix the Word 2000+ Cell Alignment buttons
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Article contributed by Dave Rado
In Word 2000+, both on the Tables and Borders toolbar,
and on the shortcut menu that you see when you right-click a table-cell, the
Cell Alignment buttons are almost unusable, if you want to use Word properly. In
Word 97, there were three Cell Alignment buttons: “Align Top”, “Center Vertically” and “Align Bottom”.
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Unfortunately, out of the box, Word 2000+ provides the buttons shown on the
right, instead. These work by applying manual paragraph formatting to your text,
in order to apply the horizontal alignment you select (this is especially
annoying if your text is justified). Fortunately you can replace the Word 2000
buttons with the Word 97 ones:
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1.
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Select
Tools + Customize.
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2.
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Drag the Word 2000+ “Cell Alignment”
menu button off the Tables and Borders toolbar.
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3.
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On the Commands tab of the Customize dialog,
select “Table” in the left pane, and drag the “Align Top”, “Center Vertically” and “Align Bottom” buttons from the right pane onto the
Tables and Borders toolbar. Close the Tables and Borders toolbar.
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On the Toolbars tab of the Customize dialog, scroll down the list of
toolbars, and click on “Shortcut
menus”. The
Shortcut Menus toolbar will appear.
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5.
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Pull down the “Tables”
menu on the Shortcut Menus toolbar; select the “Table
Cell” submenu, and drag
off the Word 2000+ Cell Alignment button.
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Select the Commands tab of the Customize dialog,
select “New Menu” in the left pane,
then select the “New
Menu” button in the
right pane and drag it onto the Shortcut Menus toolbar, under the “Table
Cell” submenu, to the
position where the Cell Alignment button was before you dragged it off.
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7.
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Right-click on your new button, and where it says “Name”,
overtype the words “New
menu” changing it to
say “Cell Alignment”.
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On the Commands tab of the Customize dialog,
select “Table” in the left pane, and drag the “Align Top”, “Center Vertically” and “Align Bottom” buttons from the right pane onto
your new “Cell
Alignment”
button.
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With the Ctrl key held down, drag to copy the new “Cell
Alignment” menu button
from the “Table Cell”
shortcut menu onto the “Table
Text”, “Tables” and
“Whole
Tables” shortcut menus.
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10.
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Drag the Word 2000 Cell Alignment menu button off the “Table
Text”, “Tables” and
“Whole
Tables” shortcut menus.
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11.
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Holding the Shift key down, select File + Save All, and save the
changes to your Normal template.
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Note: An even safer plan is to create an add-in first and make the
customisation in your add-in, rather than in Normal.dot. That way, if you ever
have to delete Normal.dot, you will not lose your customisation. For more on
this see: What do Templates and Add-ins store?
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