Centering a Table in Pages '09

The table is an inline object.

First so you can see what you are doing:

+Menu > View > Show Invisibles+

There is a paragraph return just below the table, click to the left of it and drag up and through the line the table is on. You will see the selection as a large area of blue to the right and under the table.

Now click on the centre button on the toolbar or +command shift |+ (just under the delete key).

The table will centre.

Peter

btw to get first line indents, don't use tabs.

+Menu > View > Show Ruler+

Drag the flat bar at the left margin to the right. This sets the first line indent.

Hi Dr. Dave

Welcome to the forum. 🙂

Objects can be two sorts.

Floating which means they can be freely moved anywhere, but can be disassociated from their text.

In-line which means it is part of the text flow and acts like a rather big letter in the text.

Your table is, I believe, In-line so can be treated like any other text.

If it is on its own line you can choose to centre the text (see Toolbar icons) and the table will be centred.

If it has other text on the same line it can be positioned with tabs and the ruler.

Or you can go:

+Inspector > Wrap > Floating+

Just make sure you have adjusted the word wrap around your object.

Peter

If the table is an inline object you must select it like a character.

Place your cursor in the same line as the table and drag over it to select it, or simply when your cursor is in the line select text centre, which affects everything in the line including the inline table.

You are currently selecting the contents of the table.

Peter

Your table is probably inline. Use the Inspector palette, Wrap inspector 3:d tab. When the table i selected and in the middle of the text you can see the 3 right buttons not being greyed . Clck the second last and you table should be in the middle

You have to select the table so you see the small squares. Click once on the table. Then use the Wrap Inspector palette as told earlier.

I don't think the first suggestion Peter wrote is good as the whole paragraph will be centered. You can make the table its own paragraph by inserting a paragraph break just in front and just after the table.

If your cursor is in the line, when you centre the text you centre everything including the inline objects, be it shape, table or textbox.

If something else is happening then you have to look at possible causes such as the object itself not fitting because something else is affecting it, like another floating object with wrap, which will push it away.

It maybe simpler if you click on my blue name and email me the file so I can see what is going on.

Peter