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You can have centered and justified alignment in any text box. Make a circle text box hit centered alignment in the measurement palette, Voila! Or have I missed something?

KGrubbe, that doesn't work for me (Q7.3.1). Vertical alignment is greyed out in the 'Modify' box and on the palette.

 Have you actually done this or do you just expect it to happen?

kgrubbe:

You can have centered and justified alignment in any text box. Make a circle text box hit centered alignment in the measurement palette, Voila! Or have I missed something?

I'd like to see this too -- in a text box of any shape other than rectangular, vertical alignment can only be "Top" -- so, if you need to center align text vertically (which is what the OP is talking about), you have to resort to extra returns, baseline shift, etc. 

My apologies. I obviously read the post incorrectly. Yes, it would be a tremendous asset to align text vertically in ALL text boxes not just rectangular or square ones. Again, my bad.

 Using QuarkXPress 6.1:

Click to select text box(es) - hold shift for multiple
Right-click > Modify > Text tab > Vertical Alignment Type = Centered > Apply

 Only works for rectangular text boxes. Read original post more carefully!