Vertically center text on a page

Question

How do I vertically center the text on a page?

Neil G · Answer 1 · 2011-08-16T04:00:52.247

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This is what I found:

\begin{document}
\topskip0pt
\vspace*{\fill}
text
\vspace*{\fill}
%
\end{document}

edited Aug 16 '11 at 04:00

answered Aug 25 '10 at 21:27

Neil G

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Very useful for stuff that does not take the placement modifiers, like equations. thanks – rll Jan 08 '16 at 11:17
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With this suggestion, I get a perfect vertically center text on a page, but I get several blank pages in other areas of the document. – Jh0an1 Uzca73gu1 Jan 21 '16 at 11:12
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How do you solve the problem with extra blank pages like @Jh0an1Uzca73gu1 mentioned? – Daves Broadley Jan 21 '16 at 15:24
@DavesBroadley Sorry, but I have no idea, I used the other solution. – Neil G Jan 21 '16 at 16:09
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I use the following code, suggestion of other tex.stackexchange.com thread:
\clearpage \vspace*{\fill} \begin{center} \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} \centering{This is some text to be centred vertically.} \end{minipage} \end{center} \vfill % equivalent to \vspace{\fill} \clearpage
– Jh0an1 Uzca73gu1 Jan 22 '16 at 11:39
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Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70714/center-horizontally-and-vertically-a-block-of-text – Jh0an1 Uzca73gu1 Jan 22 '16 at 15:54
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@Jh0an1Uzca73gu1 you can post it as another answer – Ooker Dec 16 '17 at 18:46
It also works for landscape environment! – Yi Qiang Ji Feb 12 '24 at 14:46

score 67 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 02 '19 at 05:20

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The memoir document class provides, among a lot of other excellent things, the vplace environment.

Try:

\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\begin{vplace}[0.7]
This is some text to be centered vertically.
\end{vplace}
\end{document}

[0.7] is an optional parameter specifying the ratio of space above to space below. The default value is [1].

edited Jun 02 '19 at 05:20

jackw11111

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answered Aug 26 '10 at 21:22

Brent.Longborough

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This is great! I am using memoir, so I prefer this solution. – Neil G Aug 27 '10 at 07:05
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Fantastic! I think we ought to start a memoir fanclub... – Brent.Longborough Aug 27 '10 at 11:49
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I haven't tried your code above. But I am not sure your code will produce an exact vertically-centered object since I notice your code does not specify \topskip0pt right before \begin{vplace}[1]. For more details, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7286/how-to-make-an-exact-vertically-centered-object-in-a-page – Display Name Dec 23 '10 at 02:30
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@JoeCorneli Thanks for your suggested edit. I've left the brackets, simply to emphasise that it's an optional parameter, and reworded to clarify the rest. – Brent.Longborough Mar 07 '13 at 09:52
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Perhaps the anonymous down-voter would care to share his/her reasons here, so that I, and others, can learn and improve? – Brent.Longborough Oct 19 '14 at 12:37
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I can't' install the memoir package. @NeilG 's option works best. – KeyC0de Jul 10 '18 at 12:26
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@Nikos That's because it isn't a package but a documentclass type. So instead of \documentclass{article} you can use documentclass{memoir}. – jackw11111 Jun 02 '19 at 03:17
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This isn't quite a solution to the original question, since it requires the user to change their documentclass. There are many other document classes, and good reasons for users to use them. Therefore, a solution that works over a broad range of document classes is more appropriate, unless the question specifically asks to use this class, or specifically states that the document class is not constrained. – MRule Jan 15 '22 at 16:50
@MRule There is no perfect solution to this question. If you're using memoir, this answer is probably the best solution. If you're not using memoir, one of the other answers is more appropriate. – Neil G Jun 24 '23 at 18:00

score 63 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '16 at 14:32

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This did the job for me:

\pagebreak
\hspace{0pt}
\vfill
Centered text.
\vfill
\hspace{0pt}
\pagebreak

answered Oct 30 '16 at 14:32

Bora M. Alper

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why do you also need the hspace{0pt} ? – Ciprian Tomoiagă Mar 15 '18 at 02:40
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I want to know that, too. It seems to be required, though. – Mars Nov 22 '18 at 00:33
I really don’t know/remember either, but as Mars said it’s required. @CiprianTomoiagă – Bora M. Alper Nov 22 '18 at 08:51
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\hspace{0pt} is required because vertical space is removed on the start of a document (e.g. pagebreak). – Mateen Ulhaq May 23 '19 at 12:00
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Of all solutions proposed here, this is the one that worked for me. – sebastian Dec 05 '20 at 10:45
This put it a little too far down on the page for my liking, but getting rid of the first \hspace{0pt} moved it up a bit. – kgrafton Feb 25 '22 at 16:12
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it's easier to replace \hspace{0pt}\vfill with \vspace*{\fill} – Daniel Diniz Sep 28 '22 at 12:01

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 19 '16 at 17:51

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In ConTeXt MkIV you use standardmakeup. For horizontal centering add the additional key align=middle as in the example below.

\starttext
\startstandardmakeup[align=middle]
  Centered text!
\stopstandardmakeup
\stoptext

answered Aug 19 '16 at 17:51

Henri Menke

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 22 '18 at 01:06

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Very simple way, like described here.

Text at the top of the page.

\vspace{5mm} %5mm vertical space

This text still at the top, 5mm below the first paragraph.

\vspace{25mm} %25mm vertical space

This text is somewhere in the middle.

\vfill

Text at the bottom of the page.

answered Feb 22 '18 at 01:06

Sim Son

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you should provide an example of document (regardless that op didn't) which show vertical centering of text on page. – Zarko Feb 22 '18 at 01:36

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