Essentially, I've been back and forth through settings and configuration for using the CK Editor as well as re-installing it but for whatever reason the text-align buttons for this WYSIWYG editor are not showing up despite the fact they appear to be configured to do so.
I'm using Drupal 7.19 and CK Editor 7.x-1.12. For clarification, this is the CK Editor as stand-alone project, not a part of the WYSIWYG project.
Also to be clear, this is not a problem of the buttons not working or text-align properties being stripped out, the buttons are simply not there. Which is a problem for ease of use for my end-users.
Why would this be happening?
Most likely you have downloaded a standard package which does not include justify plugin. Download the full package or add this plugin using online builder.