Re: Dragged out type rectangle, set centre horz, how to I centre vertically?

"Tom" <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> The answer to this must be so obvious but after hours I still have not
> found how to centre text within the text box rectangle that I drag to
> size after hiting the Type icon.
>
> I want to centre the whole selectionof text within that box so its
> bang in the middle

look at the top bar after you choose the text tool
there are options that look like paragraph lines left, right, center

for more text options open the character palette

kerning, leading, spacing between lines, all caps, sub & superscript
distortion oh so many choices