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# How To Right Justify/Center Text in Single-Line Text Control

Article ID: 111952

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition

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## SUMMARY

To center or right justify (align) the text in a text control that contains a single line of text, set the multiline property to True and the Alignment property to the desired value. Then trap the KeyPress event and use the multiline and MaxLength properties to trap the carriage return and convert it to another character.

## MORE INFORMATION

### Step-by-Step Example to Demonstrate a Right-Justified Text Control

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.
2. Add a text control (Text1) to Form1. Set its Alignment property to 1 - Right Justify. Set the Multiline property to True. Set the MaxLength property to some arbitrary value equal to the width of the text box in characters (15). Be sure to make the text control[ASCII 146]s height property large enough to display the first line of text. The actual height of the text box may need to be a little bigger than normal.
3. Add the following code to the KeyPress event procedure of Text1:

             Sub Text1_KeyPress (KeyAscii As Integer)
                If KeyAscii = 13 Then
                   KeyAscii = 7            ' Beep - no effect on text
                End If
             End Sub

   Add the following code to the Load event procedure of Form1:

             Sub Form_Load()
                Dim boxht as Double
                boxht = Text1.Height
                Text1.Height = Text1.Height * 2
                'This is to make sure the text will appear in the box
                Text1.Height = boxht
             End Sub

4. From the Run menu, choose Start (ALT, R, S) to run the program. Type text into the text control, and press the ENTER key. The keystroke is trapped, and the text does not change.

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