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la_woman_1978's picture
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Illustrator shortcut- HOW TO CENTER OBJECT?

Maybe it's not a smart question... but could you please tell me: is any shortcut (or quick method) which can help me to center object... (One object not related to the other one.... just one object... )

Somebody told me that Corel has shortcut for it; "P"

How it works in illustrator?

thank you

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pokie's picture
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Assuming you know the dimensions of your artboard (let's say it is 8.5x x 11y), go to the transform palette. Your x, y coordinates should be set to the bottom left hand corner of your document (assuming you haven't changed them).

Then, just plug in half of each number. So, x= 4.25, y=5.5

la_woman_1978's picture
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yes, I know about that:)
But I was thinking about shortcut...

thank you anyway:)

creativemurf's picture
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In the align pallette click the show options triangle.
Choose align to artboard > then click center horizontal then click center vertical. Is this method any easier?

pokie's picture
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Very nice!

la_woman_1978's picture
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Thank you so much to both of you!

:):)

Now I just need to create my own shortcut:)))

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