![]() ![]() Instead of tweaking the font size, just click ‘Shrink to Fit’ and let Excel handle it. Merge two or more cells together, has also been covered earlier. Wrapping text has been dealt with in our previous article on text formatting, but here we have another option – Under this section we have options to make text fit into a cell when it is currently overflowing the boundaries. To set the angle, you can either drag the needle on the dial to the position you want, or enter the number of degrees in the box below the dial. While the Orientation button described above allows you angle text diagonally across the cell, the Orientation section of the Format Cells dialog gives you more fine-grained control, so that you can angle the text in whatever direction you want (within 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise – you cannot turn text upside down!) The Vertical dropdown has the Top, Center, and Bottom options as described above, as well as Justified and Distributed, both of which space the lines of text out evenly up and down the cell. Horizontal |Distributed, like Justified, also spaces the text out so that it is distributed evenly across the cell, but in this case the last line is also spaced out across the cell, even if it is much shorter. Horizontal | Center Across Selection will center the text across a range of selected cells. Horizontal | Justify spaces the text out so that it is distributed evenly across the cell, except for the last line. Horizontal | Fill will duplicate the text as many times as required to fill up the cell. In addition to the horizontal and vertical alignments described above, the Format Cells dialog has a few additional options. ![]() This dialog gives you more detailed options to choose from than are available in the Orientation menu. Text formatting in Excel with wrapping, line breaks and merging See Excel’s text and number alignment choices The Format Cells dialog can be accessed from Home | Alignment | Orientation, or by right-clicking on selected cells and selecting Format Cells. ![]()
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