How can text be justified on both the left and right sides of a line in Word?

Question

Is it possible to set Microsoft Word to display some text left-aligned and other text right-aligned on a single line? Here's an example of what I mean (vertical lines represent edges of page):

| Chickens, turkey, geese, pigeon and duck   30 |
| Cows                                      240 |
| Pigs and boar                              83 |
| Sheep                          Not applicable |

The full justify option won't work because I don't want anything in the middle of the lines. The table of contents option has the formatting I want, but only supports page numbers, which does me no good.

Answer 1

Yes!

1. Make sure you can see the ruler at the top of the page
2. Click in the ruler to place a tab marker and then drag it over to the right hand side of your page.
3. Now double click on the marker and change the alignment to right.
4. Now when you press TAB while typing on that line, instead of just indenting your text a bit, you can type text aligned to the right of the page.

Answer 2

People should try to give a straight answer to a straight question. Here is one:

For Word 2010:

1) On the Home tab, click Show paragraph marks (the button that looks like an inverted P). 2) Double-click on the header of your document. 3) Under Header and Footer Tools, in the Design tab, click Insert Alignment Tab. 4) Choose Right, click OK. You will see that an arrow character was added. Select it and cut it (Ctrl+X) 5) Paste the character between the words that you want to split. 6) Voilà

Answer 3

This is accomplished with tabs. The tab stops that show in the ruler at the top of the page determine not just the position of the tab, but also how the text will be aligned relative to that marker.

You can quickly set tabs by clicking the tab selector at the left end of the ruler until it displays the type of tab that you want and then clicking the ruler at the location you want.

The various types of tab alignment have intuitive symbols:

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In your case, you position Left and Right tab stops where you want them and insert a tab character between the portions of text that will be left- and right-aligned.

Answer 4

The rules is way too complicated. Make a one row, two-column table. Set the borders on the table to NONE, make the left column aligned left, and the right column aligned right. The next line can just be a normal line outside the table.