Align centre keyboard shortcut in 7 apps
Align centre has a documented keyboard shortcut in 7 apps here, among them Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign, ClickUp, Evernote. The most common keys are Ctrl + E on Windows and Cmd + Shift + C on a Mac.
Keys on this page were last checked against their sources on September 14, 2026.
| App | Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe After Effects | Windows Ctrl + Shift + C | Mac Cmd + Shift + C | Center the text |
| Adobe InDesign | Windows Shift + Ctrl + C | Mac Shift + Cmd + C | Center the paragraph |
| ClickUp | Windows Ctrl + Shift + E | Mac Cmd + Shift + E | Center the text |
| Evernote | Windows Ctrl + E | Mac Not documented | Center the text |
| Google Sheets | Windows Ctrl + Shift + E | Mac Not documented | Center align |
| LibreOffice Writer | Windows Ctrl + E | Mac Not documented | Centre the paragraph |
| Microsoft Word | Windows Ctrl + E | Mac Not documented | Center the current paragraph |
What most apps settled on for Align centre
On Windows, Ctrl + E is the combination in 3 of the 7 apps here that document one. 4 apps go their own way on Windows, and the table above is where to find them.
Where the table is deliberately empty
4 apps here publish no Mac key for Align centre, so those cells are left blank. A blank there is a gap in that maker documentation for Align centre, not an oversight here, and it is never filled by converting the other system.
If the keys for Align centre do nothing
The 7 apps listed here each decide this for themselves, so the first thing to check is that you are reading the row for the app you are actually in, and the column for your system. After that, check the app version, since align centre is the kind of command makers move between releases. Report a correction
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