In my class at the community college we are using a 2004 textbook, 'New Perspectives, HTML and XHTML', by Carey. It contains lots of inline styles and layout in tables, as well as frames.

Ive had this problem on my desktop for so long and i thought downloading it onto my macbook would be a different but it's not. I have tried everything to fix this problem. On every other microsoft word i can simply highlight the text and center the specific portion but with my word it just centers the whole paper. This leads to massive problems with my assignments because whenever i create my cover page i try to center it but it ruins my whole paper. I can avoid this problem when i have to simply hand in a hard copy assignment to my professor as i can make seperate documents for title pages and references which are centered but if i want to hand in the whole paper online, im stuck with the problem that i cannot make a proper title page nor a reference list without my whole paper being ruined. I would appreciate any help, thank you! It isn't apparent whether you're referring to horizontal alignment or vertical alignment.

They are 2 separate & unrelated issues. Horizontal alignment [i.e., Center, Left, Right, Justified] are formatting attributes of a paragraph. Selecting text is not necessary but when you select either it should apply to only the paragraph where the insertion point is positioned. If you select more than one paragraph, all selected paragraphs will be formatted accordingly, but not the entire document. If your whole document [every paragraphs] is being reformatted based on the horizontal alignment you choose the explanation & solution is provided.

The article uses Word for Windows as the example but the same approach described for Word 2002 and 2003 applies. OTOH, vertical alignment is a Layout property of a document. By default it is set to Top & changing it applies to the entire document. In order to apply that layout change to only a portion of the document the portion has to be set off using Section Breaks.

Each Section in a document can have different properties applied without affecting other Sections. Please mark HELPFUL or ANSWERED as appropriate to keep list as clean as possible ☺ Regards, Bob J.

The info for 2002-2003 is above the 2007 procedure. It's the first procedure described below the How to correct It heading & contains the screenshot of the Modify Style dialog. Don't let the year numbers in the version names deceive you:-) I should point out, though, that Word 2011 doesn't have the Automatically Update check box for the Normal style.