Keyboard shortcut for center align in Confluence?
Asked by Parag Baxi:

Trying to center align in a table. Have to click on the icon. Is there any keyboard shortcut for it?


Answers:
author: Krisztian Kovacs
body: Hi there,

the bad news is: there isn't any (as far as I know)

Could you perhaps write in Word instead? Confluence is pretty good with pasted Word (formatted) text.

Word has loads more keyboard shortcuts.

Perhaps you're already doing that. Still, I hope this helped to clear things up a bit.

comments: author: Parag Baxi
body: I don't own Word. I appreciate the alternative feedback, but I'd rather not spend hundreds of $ to be able to get middle alignment. Also, the purpose of a keyboard shortcut is to get things done faster. This would require me to write in a separate program, copy and paste, flip to confluence and then paste.

Again, I do appreciate you offering the feedback.


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Parag,

Confluence does not have any alignment keyboard shortcuts, per this old feature request:

* [CONFSERVER-24502](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24502)

You will unfortunately need to continue using the editor buttons in order to align.

Let us know if you have any questions.  

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Ramita Rajaa K
body: Why not? Keyboard shortcuts are crucial to efficiency. My flow of work is always hindered when I write in Confluence. Please introduce the keyboard shortcut for alignment ASAP.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Ramita,

Welcome to Community, and thank you for joining us. It's nice to have you.

Parag, the original poster, raised a new feature request for this, which you can find below:

* [CONFSERVER-54817](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54817) *Keyboard shortcuts for text alignment*

You can vote on this request now, and comment with your feedback. This will also ensure that you will be added as a watcher, and you will receive any updates via your email.

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Ramita Rajaa K
body: Hey Shannon, thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I am unable to vote on the feature request. [In fact, this link](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-24502) says that the feature request has been declined. This is extremely disappointing. Using keyboard shortcuts makes my job 10X easier. I don't understand why a word processing software would choose not to have this!


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Ramita,

I think you might be looking at the closed request instead of the new one, which I just linked to.

Can you make sure you are **not** looking at **CONFSERVER-24502** and that you **are** looking at **CONFSERVER-54817**? I just tested myself, and it is still possible to vote on it. Your 2nd link goes to the old request again, which is why I think you might be looking at the old one.

Again the new ticket is as follows:

* [CONFSERVER-54817](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54817) *Keyboard shortcuts for text alignment*

Let me know how that goes.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Ramita Rajaa K
body: Hey Shannon,

If you notice from this image, the voting option is an unclickable link for me.![Screenshot 2019-06-11 at 3.42.08 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57200i59EAB62F5D063A22/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-06-11 at 3.42.08 PM.png")

I am unable to vote or comment.


author: Shannon S
body: Ramita,

From your screenshot I can tell that you are not logged in when viewing the issue. Please be aware that it's not possible to vote anonymously. You will need to login to your Atlassian ID in order to vote.

I have tested using my own customer account, and here you can see it will be possible to vote once you log in:

![Screenshot 2019-06-11 at 13.26.39.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57209iECAE3C338E7947A4/image-dimensions/474x280?v=v2 "Screenshot 2019-06-11 at 13.26.39.png")

Can you please give that a try?

Thank you!

Regards,

Shannon


author: Ramita Rajaa K
body: Thanks, Shannon. That worked, and I've cast my vote. Can I know how many votes you need to get before your team starts working on this issue?


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Ramita,

Happy to hear you were able to access it now! Thank you for your vote. Please feel free to share with others that you know might also need this feature.

As for what exactly causes a feature request to be implemented, it's not necessarily the feature with the most votes, but a combination of things. Have a look at our [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html) for more details on that.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon