affinity learner needs some help with spacing text

[goldie talks speech]

I am a speech therapist and I am creating materials for my own students as well as to upload to my Teachers pay Teachers store.  I just got Affinity Designer and I am learning so much from videos and reading other posts on this forum.   I attached a screen shot of what I am trying to do.  I  am trying to create rectangles of all the same size to fit text into a grid pattern so they can be printed on letter sized paper.  The sentences are different lengths and I would like them to be centered in the rectangle as much as possible.  As you can see I got it somewhat lined up but it took me a ridiculous amount of time. 

I made three columns with a text box and typed in my sentences.  Then I created horizontal and vertical rectangles for the border.  Then I  highlighted the individual sentences and used the spacing under character to try to center it on the horizontal plane the best I could. 

I know there must be better ways to do this.  Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.  I appreciate all of you sharing your expertise. 

Best,

Michelle

[Gabe]

Hi @goldie talks speech,

Welcome to the forums.

The easy way would be to use the Frame Text tool. Hold-left-click over the Artistic text tool and the Frame text tool will come up. Select that, make a selection box the size of your rectangle, type the text, align centre and centre vertically and you're good to go. 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[mac_heibu]

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[Gabe]

1 minute ago, mac_heibu said:

Affinity Designer is not really useful for this, because it doen‘t offer vertical centering of text within a text frame. Additionally it has no table Funktion.

Are you on a Mac? Building this in Numbers is a matter of minutes.

It does vertical centre within a text frame. Check my post

[goldie talks speech]

I am on a mac.  If I build this in numbers, do I copy and paste it into affinity designer?

[Gabe]

I'm pretty sure Numbers works on tables, and Designer does not support tables. 

[mac_heibu]

I deleted my post in the meanwhile. But I really think, Numbers is far better for this use case.

Why not building and printing from Numbers?

[goldie talks speech]

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly.  I used power duplicate to duplicate the frame text box and move it down to the next row

to create a row of same sized text boxes and they are now centered perfectly.  The power of knowing the right approach is a great thing even

for something as simple as centering text. 

 

[goldie talks speech]

18 minutes ago, mac_heibu said:

I deleted my post in the meanwhile. But I really think, Numbers is far better for this use case.

Why not building and printing from Numbers?

I can see how numbers would work well with the sentence list making.  I am also creating games and cover pages as well and adding clip art.  Some that I create and some that I purchase with commercial license.  I have been using Silhouette Studio software for a long time for a vinyl and paper cutting machine that I have.  I found that I really enjoyed using it and I realized that it had similar features to adobe illustrator.  I downloaded AI trial and spent about an hour playing with it.  I decided I had better check the price before I fell in love with new software.  When I saw their new pricing structure I uninstalled it before I got stuck on it and stuck paying $20 a month into eternity. 

Then I found Affinity Designer which is so great and the pricing is so great and they seem Mac friendly which is even better.  I am enjoying learning as I create work for my students.  AD has so many more functions and capabilities of course than my Silhouette Studio software but because I had been using the Silhouette software for a few years, I think I jumped into it more easily than I would have just coming from knowing nothing.  Long story to say that I want to learn more about AD so I am using it to create things so I can learn as I go.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help me.