Precisely Align Text to be Vertically Centered on an object

[williamw]

I have two paragraphs as shown below. I want each paragraph to be center aligned to the object on its left.

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Something more akin to this:

I am sort of just manually doing it and eyeballing the center, but is there a more precise way to do this?

[Brian_J]

Here’s how to precisely align an object(s) to another object.

1. Create each paragraph in a separate text frame (or artistic text).
2. Select the object you want to align to (square with number). Keeping the first object selected, select the paragraph layer you want to align.
3. On the toolbar, click Alignment. In the Align Vertically section, click the Align Middle icon, and in the Align to drop-down, select First Selected.
4. Click the Apply button.

Note: If the text was created with the Frame Text Tool, you will need to fit the frame to the frame text in order for the text to be visually aligned to the key object. Double-click the edge handle at the bottom center of the text frame... this will remove extra space between the last line of text and the frame's bottom edge.

[thomaso]

10 hours ago, Brian_J said:

Note: If the text was created with the Frame Text Tool, you will need to fit the frame to the frame text in order for the text to be visually aligned to the key object.

I guess this is not necessary if the text is set vertically centre aligned within its frame.

If both frames have this setting than snapping will help to centre them easily just by dragging one of them.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[Catshill]

30 minutes ago, lacerto said:

Why not let the tables do their best? Creating the bullet shapes using graphic tools and shape objects, converting them to text frames, controlling text frame vertical advance with fixed distance, specifying vertical center alignment for cells, and having at the same time all character and paragraph formatting available is a winning combination in these kinds of complex tasks, especially as the "macro formatting" can till be changed by using table-specific controls:

 

 

 

A good prompt that I need to use tables more often than I do. I looked at then with version 1.7 and was very unimpressed but you have made a good case for persevering with them.

[williamw]

11 hours ago, lacerto said:

Why not let the tables do their best? Creating the bullet shapes using graphic tools and shape objects, converting them to text frames, controlling text frame vertical advance with fixed distance, specifying vertical center alignment for cells, and having at the same time all character and paragraph formatting available is a winning combination in these kinds of complex tasks, especially as the "macro formatting" can still be changed by using table-specific controls:

 

 

 

This was a great solution thanks!