<p class="Paragraph">Use this function to align objects.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">The alignment options depend on the type of object and its anchoring. It also makes a difference if a multiple selection has been carried out or not. Therefore, several selected drawing elements or several control fields will be aligned relatively to one another if they are anchored to the page or paragraph but not to a character.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="alignment" tag="kw65874_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER">For drawing elements and control fields, you can find</help:case><help:default>You can find</help:default></help:switch> on the <help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="DRAW">main toolbar</help:case><help:case select="IMPRESS">main toolbar</help:case><help:case select="WRITER">object bar</help:case></help:switch> the <help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER"><span class="T1">Alignment icon</span></help:case><help:default><span class="T1">Align icon</span> which you can use to open or detach a</help:default></help:switch> window. This window has icons for each of the alignment functions described here.</p>