Specifying the cell and table alignment

The most frequent formatting operation is the horizontal or vertical alignment of a block of cells. You may use the M-←, M-→, M-↑ and M-↓ keystrokes to quickly align more to the left, right, top or bottom.

A specific alignment can also be selected in the Table→Horizontal cell alignment and Table→Vertical cell alignment menus. Alternatively, you may use keyboard shorthands of the types M-t h x and M-t v x for horizontal resp. vertical alignment.

Similarly, you may specify how the table itself should be aligned with respect to the surrounding text. This is either done via the Table→Horizontal table alignment and Table→Vertical table alignment submenus, or using keyboard shorthands of the form M-t H x or M-t V x. Here x represents l for “left”, c for “centered”, r for “right”, b for “bottom” and t for “top”.