Horizontal alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraph: left-aligned text, right-aligned text, centered text, or justified text, which is aligned evenly along the left and right margins. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), the left edge of the paragraph is flush with the left margin.
What do you want to do?
Align the text left or right
- Select the text that you want to align.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Align Left
or Align Right 
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Center the text
- Select the text that you want to center.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Center
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Justify the text
You can justify the text, which might make the last line of text in a paragraph considerably shorter than the other lines.
- Select the text you want to justify.
- On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Justify
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