How can you vertically center the text inside selected cells of a table in MS Word 2021?
Right‑click selection > Table Properties > Cell tab > Vertical alignment: Center
This question distinguishes between two different kinds of alignment in MS Word. It is important not to confuse horizontal (paragraph) alignment with vertical (cell) alignment.
The buttons in the Home tab → Paragraph group — Align Left, Center, Align Right and Justify — control only how text sits horizontally across the line: pushed to the left edge, centred left-to-right, pushed to the right edge, or stretched to both margins. None of them move text up or down inside a table cell.
To centre text vertically (top-to-bottom) inside table cells, you must use the table's own settings. The reliable route is: right-click the selected cells → Table Properties → Cell tab → Vertical alignment: Center. (The same control is also available on the contextual Table Layout / Table Tools ribbon that appears when the cursor is inside a table, in its Alignment group.)
Therefore the correct answer is Right-click selection → Table Properties → Cell tab → Vertical alignment: Center.
The choices pointing to Align Left, Align Right and Justify are wrong because those are horizontal paragraph controls; none of them affects whether the text hugs the top, middle or bottom of the cell.
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