User has Word 2000 with SP3. This problem only occurs in Word, not in any other applications. System WAS working ok, but appeared to suddenly change. Tried a new copy of NORMAL.DOT, and checked all settings appear to be at defaults. No viruses, adware or spyware detected.

If, say, one word is typed in a new document, both the screen view and the print preview show this one word in the top lefthand corner. Print the document, and this word is slap bang right in the middle of the A4 sized paper! All previously made documents also print 'justified' from the middle outwards.

Summary – how to vertically center text in Word. Click the Page Layout tab. Click the Page Setup button. Click the Layout tab on the Page Setup window. Click the Vertical alignment drop-down menu, then click the Center option. Click the Apply to drop-down menu, then click the Whole document option. Click the OK button.

Need to create a cover page for a report you’re writing? You can create a simple, but professional cover page by centering the text both horizontally and vertically. Centering text horizontally on a page is easy, but vertically? That’s also easy and we’ll show you how. Before you center the text on your title page, you need to separate the cover page from the rest of your report, so only the text on the cover page gets centered vertically. To do this, put the cursor right before the text you want in the new section.