How to ignore characters for the purposes of centering text?

This is an odd question, but I'm making a document in Word that has centered author bylines.  Some of the bylines have multiple asterisks after them, and I would like for the names to be centered, but for the centering to ignore the asterisks:

Does anyone know how to do this?

  
You could use a one-row, two-column table (hide the borders) or two tab stops, the first of which is centered.
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just insert same number of spaces BEFORE the name
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so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people.
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 250 Applies to: