Aligning to MiddleTop might suffice for the first half. By using MiddleCenter, it is probably trying to center whatever you have vertically, which isn't what you are after.

As for the second, I have no useful suggestion. You could make it happen, but I don't see a way to make it happen automatically. It seems like you could do it with a label on a panel where the panel is AutoScroll = True, but the label would have to be re-sized whenever the text changed, which would be a right pain.

I would expect that somebody has a better answer than that.