*How To Make An Indent In Excel
*How To Make Indent In Excel
In this article we will learn how to decrease and increase the text towards the cell border you can use “Indent” option in Microsoft Excel 2010. It is a part of “Format Cells”, in “Alignment” tab in “Text Alignment”. There are two types of Indent one is “Increase Indent” and second is “Decrease Indent”.
Hanging indents no, indents yes To create a hanging indent look alike, type five spaces before your text. 'DBTI' wrote: I am trying to create a list in Excel but some descriptions are lengthly. It would be easier to distinguish between each item if, as a description wraps in the cell, a hangin indent was in place. Select the text where you want to add a hanging indent. Go to Home Paragraph dialog launcher Indents and Spacing. Under Special, select Hanging. You can adjust the depth of the indent using the By field.
“Decrease Indent is used to move the content closer to the cell border”
“Increase Indent is used to move the content further away from the cell border”
To understand Changing the Indentation in Microsoft Excel 2010/2013,let’s take an example and understand:-
Wrap Text by using the shortcut command
I have text in cell A1 to A12, to change the indentation in a cell follow the below mentioned steps:-
Step 1: Select the list of expenses below each division for example: select the cells A2:A6 (a group of expenses for Department 1).
Step 2: Go to “Home” tab in the group of “Alignment” click on the “Increase Indent” icon on the formatting tool bar several times until you reach the desired indentation.
Step 3: To go back the position click on “Decrease Indent” icon on the formatting toolbar several times until you reach the desired indentation.
OR
Step 1: Select the range A2:A7 and Press the key “CTRL + 1”.
Step 2: Format Cells dialog boxwill appear, select the “Alignment” tab and in the Indent box change the number of characters to Indent.
Step 3: Select the Right (Indent) in Horizontal.
Step 4: Type 5 in indent.
Click on Ok.
When you think of indenting information, you normally think of a word processor. It is not unusual to indent paragraphs or specific lines of information on the screen. Excel, while definitely not a word processor, allows you to easily indent information within a cell.
To set the indent to be used in a cell, follow these steps:How To Make An Indent In Excel
*Select the cells you want to format.
*Choose Cells from the Format menu. Excel displays the Format Cells dialog box.
*Make sure the Alignment tab is selected. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. The Alignment tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
*Using the Indent control, specify the number of characters by which the cell contents should be indented. You can pick any whole number between 0 and 15.
*Click on OK.
Each number of indent moves the contents of the cell about one character width to the right. (There goes that strange character measurement system in Excel again.) You can also control the indentation of cell contents by using the two indent tools on the Formatting toolbar. Each click of a tool moves the cell contents one position to the left or right.How To Make Indent In Excel
If you have set up a cell so that text wraps within the cell, then indentation affects all the lines of text within the cell—not just the first line.
