Click in the equation or list.
On the Positioning page of the Equations panel, choose an item from the Left/Right drop-down list. When you choose Left Of = or Right Of =, the lines are aligned along one side of an equal sign. A line with no equal sign is aligned along its left side.
Set a manual alignment point for a multiline equation or for an item in a vertical list
Do one of the following:
Click in the first line of a multiline equation where you want subsequent lines to align.
Click in a vertical list item where you want the item to align with the rest of the list.
On the Positioning page of the Equations panel, choose Set Manual from the Left/Right drop-down list. A manual alignment symbol
appears
at the insertion point when text symbols are visible. Subsequent
lines of a multiline equation are left aligned with the manual alignment
point. A vertical list item aligns with other items in the list
at the manual alignment point.