Good morning! Fighting with an email document. Alignment in the content editor indicates left align but it comes out centered in the preview and when sent as an actual email. I don’t see anything about alignment in the source code but don’t know where I’d enter it either.
This is a default email template. Any insights? My ‘letter’ looks pretty dumb centered. 
This may not be helpful, I usually am editing the “Source” view, but here are a few things to check/try.
First just try doing it with the formatting buttons. Highlight what you want left-justified and hit the little left-justify button.
Next you can look at the HTML code if that doesn’t work. It’s a very great idea to make sure you copy the original ‘source’ code (into notepad for example) before making edits so you can always revert back to it and start over if you screw up.
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Your email is probably set up with HTML tables. Find the <td tag that is before the part you want left-justified, and make sure it looks something like this:
<td align="left">(it may have other things in there too). Doing so will tell it to left-justify (which is actually the default anyway) everything inside that cell. However, if subsequent HTML or CSS markup tells something inside to instead be centered, then that overrides the table cell’s setting. -
Then make sure there’s nothing inside the
<td></td>(table cell) that has anything like: align=“center”, text-align:center;,<center></center>, etc. -
There are sometimes other things like a CSS rule inside the template itself is saying to center it. For example it might say to center all
<p>tags. So you might have to check the template and not just the email document.
I notice the top half of the default success template edits aligned left but displays and sends aligned center. Apparently that’s how it’s supposed to work. #CanadianLogic
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Thank you! I’ll fiddle with this all some more. I appreciate the help!