MS-Excel / Excel 2003

Getting Your Text under Control

The Alignment tab on the Format Cells dialog box provides you with three methods for managing the text entries in your spreadsheet. The first two controls are specifically designed to manage extra-long text entries so that they fit within a column width that's considerably narrower than would otherwise be required to display all the text. The last method enables you to center a text heading over several columns as you might want to do with a title for a table of data.

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In this tutorial:

  1. Alignments for Data Entries
  2. Excel Format Cells dialog box
  3. Indenting data entries
  4. Using nonstandard vertical alignment
  5. Rotating text entries
  6. Getting Your Text under Control
  7. Making text wrap within a cell
  8. Shrinking the text to fit within a cell
  9. Centering a heading across columns