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centering text in its text frame

Gus
Newcomer
There is a checkbox in the text selection settings in Text Block Formatting to put a frame around your text. I think this is great. However, the text is not centered within that frame. I've changed the "leading" on the text and that seems to have no effect on the frame placement. Anyone know how to get the frame centered around the text?
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Anonymous
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Have you tried center justified ?
Peter Devlin
Gus
Newcomer
I have tried "justified" and "centered" but found nothing that is both "justified" and "centered" as an option. Am I missing something?
www.michaelgustavson.com Architect NY WI IL
Madison WI
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Anonymous
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The image below is of a framed piece of text with the info box
for the text showing center justified selected.
Peter Devlin
Center Justified.jpg
Link
Graphisoft Partner
Graphisoft Partner
It also depends how your text was created. Did you place a text box first then your text? Or did you double click and then enter your text?

Either way, if you uncheck Text Wrapping in your Text Settings, you'll get a better idea of how it works.

Cheers,
Link.
Gus
Newcomer
If you do the same thing you just did with the distance between the frame and the text at zero you will see what I mean. It won't be centered. It looks good with a big frame but not with a small frame. The small frame is what I need for my construction documents. Otherwise the text won't fit in the drawing.

Aloha
www.michaelgustavson.com Architect NY WI IL
Madison WI
Archicad21 MEP EcoDesSTAR Win10-64-bit
EliteBook8570W Corei7-3630QM@2.40GHz
QuadroK2000m RAM32 (2)250GBSSDs
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