Text and numbers can be defined as left-aligned, right-aligned, or centered in Excel XP. The picture below shows the difference between these alignment types when they're applied to labels. Text and numbers may be aligned using the left-align, center, and right-align buttons on the Formatting toolbar:. We've previously seen how to align text or numbers using the left-align, center, and right-align buttons on the Standard toolbar. You can also define alignment in the Alignment tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
The Horizontal section features a drop-down menu that contains the same left, center, and right alignment options in the picture above, as well as several more:. This fills the cell with the current contents by repeating the contents for the width of the cell. If the text is larger than the cell width, Justify wraps the text in the cell and adjusts the spacing within each line so all lines are as wide as the cell. Contents of the cell that are farthest to the left are centered across the selection of cells.
This is similar to the Merge and Center command, except the cells are not merged. You can also define vertical alignment in a cell, similar to how it is done for horizontal alignment. In vertical alignment , information in a cell can be located at the top of the cell, middle of the cell, or bottom of the cell.
The default is bottom. Text control allows you to control the way Excel XP presents information in a cell. There are three types of text control: wrapped text, shrink to fit , and merge cells. The fourth type of cell alignment in the Format Cells dialog box is text orientation , which allows text to be oriented 90 degrees in either direction up or down. Unlike Justify , Distributed works for all lines, including the last line of the wrapped text.
Even if a cell contains short text, it will be spaced-out to fit the column width if distributed horizontally or the row height if distributed vertically.
When a cell contains just one item text or number without in-between spaces , it will be centered in the cell. When changing the Horizontal alignment to Distributed , you can set the Indent value, telling Excel how many indent spaces you want to have after the left border and before the right border. If you don't want any indent spaces, you can check the Justify Distributed box at the bottom of the Text alignment section, which ensures that there are no spaces between the text and cell borders the same as keeping the Indent value to 0.
If Indent is set to some value other than zero, the Justify Distributed option is disabled grayed out. The following screenshots demonstrate the difference between distributed and justified text in Excel:.
Exactly as its name suggests, this option centers the contents of the left-most cell across the selected cells. Visually, the result is indistinguishable from merging cells, except that the cells are not really merged. This may help you present the information in a better way and avoid undesirable side-effects of merged cells.
Wrap text - if the text in a cell is larger than the column width, enable this feature to display the contents in several lines. For more information, please see How to wrap text in Excel. Shrink to fit - reduces the font size so that the text fits into a cell without wrapping. The more text there is in a cell, the smaller it will appear. Merge cells - combines selected cells into one cell.
For more information, please see How to merge cells in Excel without losing data. The text orientation options available on the ribbon only allow to make text vertical, rotate text up and down to 90 degrees and turn text sideways to 45 degrees. The Orientation option in the Format Cells dialog box enables you to rotate text at any angle, clockwise or counterclockwise.
Simply type the desired number from 90 to in the Degrees box or drag the orientation pointer. The bottom-most section of the Alignment tab, named Right-to-left , controls the text reading order.
In this context, "right-to-left" refers to any language that is written from right to left, for example Arabic. If you don't have a right-to-left Office language version installed, then you will need to install an appropriate language pack.
For starters, it should be noted that the Excel number format is not explicitly designed for setting cell alignment. However, it allows "hardcoding" alignment for certain cells to ensure that your data looks exactly the way you want, regardless of the alignment options enabled on the ribbon. Please note, this method requires at least some basic knowledge of format codes, which are explained in detail in this tutorial: Custom Excel number format. Below I will demonstrate the general technique.
For example, to get numbers to align left in cells, take a regular format code that displays 2 decimal places. As the result, you get this format: ". Taking a step further, you can force numbers to align left and text to align right by defining all 4 sections of the number format: positive numbers; negative numbers; zero; text.
Now, no matter what alignment options your users select on the ribbon, the data will be aligned according to the custom number format you've set:. Now that you know the essentials of Excel alignment, let me show you a couple of tips to enhance the visual presentation of your data.
To align numbers in a column by decimal point, create a custom number format as explained in the above example. But this time, you will be using the "? The Orientation option in format cells allows us to rotate the text to any angel either clockwise or counterclockwise. We hope this blog post helps you to understand the Text alignment concept. Do practice and if you have any query or question, Feel free to write it down in a comment box or connect to www.
Your email address will not be published. Type of Alignment in Excel- There are two types of alignment in Excel- 1- Vertical Alignment 2- Horizontal Alignment 1- Vertical Alignment- To align data vertically, we have three option Top Align-Align the contents on the top of the cell edge Middle Align- Align the contents between the top and bottom of the cell Bottom Align-Align the contents on the bottom of the cell.
In excel there is a way to run all the shortcut, follow the steps given below- 1- Press Alt Key 2- Now we can see, some alphabet and numeric is highlighting in ribbon tab. Text Alignments Options: — Fill:- Use the fill option to fill the contents of the cell to the end of the width of cells.
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