centering the chapter title in article class

Question

In an article class:

How to make the chapter heading centered?
The command \section or \chapter is come with the error "undefined control sequence" when it is compiled.

How to overcome this?

Welcome to TeX.SX! Article does not define \chapter. You need to use report or a similar class for this. — TeXnician, Jun 28 '17 at 06:56
Which article class? As TeXnician stated, article classes usually does not have \chapter, so usually \chapter is undefined. How to center section headings depends on the class, e.g., scrartcl provides \raggedsection that can be set to \centering. memoir also has its own interface. Other classes may need extra packages. So please add a minimal but working example (MWE) to your question. And tell us as exact as possible, what you've done and what you expect. BTW: You should ask only one question per question. — Schweinebacke, Jun 28 '17 at 08:40
Related: Underline and center headings, Centering chapter/section/subsection, Right-align chapter/section/subsection header, Section Heading Centering problem, How to center chapter, section and subsection using memoir? and several more. — Schweinebacke, Jun 28 '17 at 10:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 09:06

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The titlesecpackage is there for that. This should do it just fine :

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\section}{\centering}

answered Jun 28 '17 at 09:06

Rémi Nazin

But you should use titlesec only, if you use a class to which it is really compatible. titlesec is not compatible with all article classes. – Schweinebacke Jun 28 '17 at 10:18
Of course, I assumed a standard class was used – Rémi Nazin Jul 07 '17 at 08:34

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