Working with controls in forms is covered in Access Beginner 2  You might want to go back and review those lessons.

Ont hing I'v found helpful is to make them bigger than you need after changing a font size then click once to select the control.  With the control selected double click one of the sizing handles to size the control to fit.  It really is just a matter of working with lots of forms and reports before it becomes second nature.   Having a good looking form or report and fitting everything in really is king of an art and it just takes doing it. Lots.

Play around in design mode with the mouse right click options as well as the options on the ribbon under arrange and format.

I wish there was a magic bullet or wizard wand I could give you but some of it is just experience in working with the objects.

Being able to center text within a field, not only orizontally but vertically would make this all way easier as can be done in excel. After having used Apha Five database and Excel spreadsheet I was surprised that access, after all of these years did not make this a basic thing in access. Hopefully they listen to us the users of access.

Agreed.  But I don't see that happening in the near future.  Why they didn't institute that is above my pay grade.

I use A5 years ago as well - you get used to doing things a certain way and then have to change it's tough I know.
But what are you going to do?

Access cannot align text vertically inside text boxes, which is a big oversight.  If you really must have vertical alignment, make your text box borderless and put it inside a rectangle.  In the Format event of the report's Detail section, adjust the .Top and .Height properties on the text box based on the length of the text in it.  See VBA code and picture below.

Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
    Dim b As Boolean
    
    ' Check if text length is greater than, say, 30 characters.
    b = (Len(Me!field1 & "") > 30)
    
    ' Set values of .Top and .Height properties of text box based on whether text is 30 chars long or not.
    ' .Top and .Height are in "twips."  One inch equals 1440 twips.
    Me!field1.Top = IIf(b, 0.08, 0.16) * 1440
    Me!field1.Height = IIf(b, 0.4, 0.2) * 1440
End Sub