: How can I align text in a text area vertically, in Illustrator? how can I align some text in any text area vertically? so I can align a label vertically and Horizontally in any text area,

@Shakeerah625

You may try "Type on a path Tool". It has an option of justifing the text vertically to path center, but first create path and put the text and then go to the Type menu to change its settings. You can justify it horizonatally from paragraph panel. Optioanlly you may set the opacity of the path to zero to hide it.

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@Murray664

After almost half an hour going through so many answers and not able to understand. I did some hit and try and found a very very simple solution.

Just select the text in the text box
right click
select "object Properties"
a toolbar shall open in the right hand side
got to option "Frame"
just move your cursor on the available options and it shall show you the vertical alignment possibilities.

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@Mendez620

You can use a negative baseline (Character panel > Show Options) to simulate vertical alignment. This is the only way that has worked well for me to visually center text in a text box with a colored background. Without using a negative baseline, the Type > Area Type Options > Offset > Inset spacing doesn't let you vertically center text in a text box.

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@Deb5748823

Paragraph Align

1) Select the "Type," "Area Type" or "Vertical Area Type" tool.

2) Click in the text frame that contains vertical text.

3) Click on the "Window" menu and hover over "Type." Select "Paragraph" to activate the paragraph panel.

4) Select the "Align Top," "Align Center" or "Align Bottom" icons in the paragraph panel or on the control panel. The paragraph of text will adjust to the top, center or bottom of the text frame.

Align to Object

5) Hold down the "Shift" key, and select the area type and the object that you want to align the type with.

6) Click on the "Window" menu, and select "Align" to activate the "Align" Panel.

7) Select the desired alignment icon from the align panel. Illustrator automatically moves the text frame and the object to align the text frame with the selected object.

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@Deb5748823

You could use the

Character Style


Horizontal Scale
Vertical Scale
And maybe taking it a step further turn on the Asian font settings to access the Tate-chu-yoko and Warichu settings for the Vertical Up/Down alignment.


And also set up

Paragraph Styles


Advanced Character Formats
Indents and Spacing


I use Indents to create the padding found in a HTML box-model

There is also the same controls for Asian Characters mentioned above including Japanese Composition Settings.

It's all about learning the hacks until they move more into the Web Design aspect that was introduced in the CC version.

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@Karen819

When you type a text. There should be a saying "Paragraph like this" imgur.com/90lL0cl
Then you align it to the right or left or in the center.
I hope this has have helped!

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@Margaret771

Unfortunately, there is no option to vertically align text within a text box in Illustrator.

You might can try this script which was posted as an answer on a similar question.

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