You havent given us very much information to work with, but Im gonna take a wild guess:
Maybe you are entering data into a cell, which is part of a table, in which case you need to set cell properties for correct allignment

thanks for tring to help. On the edit page, in the box we put the text are three boxes. The first is to make the letters Bold, the next group is to select the paragram/sentence starts is four choices. It is stuck on center page sentence beginning and no matter what I do it wont change. Now all the other areas, left choices and on the right work, but not where we choose where we want to start the alingment. Tomd

Maybe you could start from the beginning. There are hundreds of web page editors on the market, Bravenet doesn't dictate which ones you use, and they are all a bit different from each other.

If you started by telling us what software you are using and then explained the problem it would be a lot easier.

Edit Web Page Content; Main Content Area; Visual Editor;Website Wizard; on websites in bravenet account manager editing area. tool bar at top of page, text alingment only works. tryed all I can to left alingment and it wont move off of center. Tomd