To get the horizontal centering--just select your text and hit the Center Icon
on the format toolbar--just like you would to center text in a cell.

I had to hit enter a few times (at the beginning of the text) to center it
vertically.



rvrl wrote:

Is there a way to set the default text alignment to "center" for both
vertical and horizontal in the draw text box? I am using Excel 2000. I
found it for the cell default. That's what I want to do with the draw text
box.
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Thanks

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Dave Peterson