Lost a tool bar?

[pixiegirl]

I'm only an occasionally user of my Affinity Photo so when things disappear I have trouble finding them again. I'm not even sure what it's called that I'm looking for. 

When I am working on a project, in this case its a postcard for a commercial real estate agent, I want the photo captions to be 100% lined up, i.e. in the exact same spot under each photo. In the past when I went to move the captions under the photos I would see numbers that told exactly where those captions are... and now they are gone. Actually my entire "tool" bar was gone but I managed to click on something and I got the layer tool bar back that shows all the layers in the postcard but I don't know how to get back the thing that shows where (it may be in pixels) my elements on the page/postcard are physically located so I can get them on the exact same place. 

I'm not sure I'm explaining this correctly but I've included a screenshot of what I'm seeing, maybe that will help. I hate when things disappear. I've clicked on a lot of stuff but can't find those location numbers. As I said, I don't even know what they are called. 

Susan

[GarryP]

I think you might want the Transform Panel – that’s where the X/Y/W/H values are (and others).
You can get it via menu “View → Studio → Transform”.

Note: Menu “View → Studio → Reset Studio” can be useful when all else fails.

[pixiegirl]

I think that's it. thank you so much GarryP. I need to start using it more and watch a few videos on it's use. I did a lot of Googling but it's hard to find info online when you don't know what a tool is called. Again, thank you!

 

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I think you might want the Transform Panel – that’s where the X/Y/W/H values are (and others)
You can get it via menu “View → Studio → Transform”.

Note: Menu “View → Studio → Reset Studio” can be useful when all else fails.

[GarryP]

You're welcome.

[Old Bruce]

In this case I would use Frame Text text frames instead of Art Text text frames. I would just have a Paragraph Style called Centred Captions which would have the spacing set to Centre instead of Left. The text frame would be the width of the image, turn on snapping or use guides of some sort, to make sure.

[h_d]

Just to expand on @Old Bruce's suggestion:

Here I've pulled in vertical guides to each side of the image, enabled snapping in View - Snapping Manager, drawn a frame text box snapped to the guides and then set the text alignment to centred with no first line indent:

[pixiegirl]

37 minutes ago, h_d said:

 

Ok wow thanks for the video, that makes it very clear. Thanks h_d that was very helpful.

 

 

 

Just to expand on @Old Bruce's suggestion:

Here I've pulled in vertical guides to each side of the image, enabled snapping in View - Snapping Manager, drawn a frame text box snapped to the guides and then set the text alignment to centred with no first line indent: