align text to center in Text Box

[Barbara White]

Using Word 2000 on Windows 2000.

I can't figure out how to set the alignment of text in a text box so
that the text appears in the center of the box. (I'm not talking
about centering each line of text--I'm talking about making the text
appear in the middle of the box, so that there's space above it and
below it as needed.)

I know that this can be done for table cells, but I can't figure out
how to do it for text boxes.

Any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unfortunately, Word (through Word 2003) does not offer this option (though
Publisher does). The workaround is to put a single (borderless) table cell
in the text box and use the vertical alignment control in the table.