The text floats at the top of the field, out of the line of the underline in the adjacent field. In 25 years of using Word I have never needed text to float out of line of everything else. Not sure why it's an option let alone the default. Highlighted text, right clicked in the table and chose Table Properties Cell Vertical Options Bottom.

Summary: For emphasis, you can raise or lower blocks of text in your Word 2003 documents.
For emphasis, you may wish to raise or lower certain text inside your Microsoft Word 2003 documents. While you can raise whole blocks of text, it may make sense to raise or lower certain words or phrases inside a paragraph.

If you're creating a brochure or cover page for a business document, you might want to use Microsoft Word 2010 to align your text vertically. In Word 2010, you can vertically align text at the top, bottom or center of the page. Vertically centered text moves directly to the middle of the page. This gives your document a clean, professional look. Middle align text vertically in table cell in Word. Middle align text vertically in table cell in Word. Centering text vertically is almost as easy: Right-click on the cell containing the information you want to vertically center. This displays a Context menu for the cell. Choose the Alignment (Word 97) or Cell Alignment (Word 2000 or later) option from the Context menu. This displays a submenu. Choose the Center Vertically option. Put the mouse cursor at the start of the text you want to center. Click and hold the left mouse button. Move the cursor to the end of the text you want to highlight. The text should now be bordered by a transparent blue box.

1. Highight the word(s) you want to raise or lower.

2. Select the “Format” – “Font” menu or right-click the text and choose “Font”.

3. When the “Font” multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the “Text Effects” tab.

4. Next to “Position”, click the combo box and select either “Normal”, “Raised”, or “Lowered”.

5. If you selected “Raised” or “Lowered”, next to “By”, enter the number of points (or your configured measurement unit) that you want the text raised or lowered.

6. When done, click “OK” to close the dialog box.

If you create a table in Word and type some contents in it, you’ll find the text is automatically aligned left just like in Excel. It’s the default setting. If you don’t like it and want to center the text in each cell of Word tables, there are methods you can try.

First, select all the content in the table.

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Then switch to Home tab and click Center in Paragraph section. The text will be centered immediately as below. But it’s still at the upper place of each cell.

If you want to center the text in Word tables both horizontally and vertically, you should select all the text at first as well. Then right-click the selected text and choose Table Properties…

Switch to Cell tab and choose Center in Vertical alignment. Hit OK to implement it.

Now check the table again. You’ve centered the text completely.

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