
But you will notice that as soon as we used the Orientation “Angle Counterclockwise”, the text moved towards the Right cell and the Left using “Angle Clockwise”. Tip: Do not use a fixed set of arrangements for every report because the orientation and alignment depending on the length and type of text you have.įor example, The default text started from Column B1:F1. This might seem confusing, but surely will be better when you try it once. Here’s a snapshot of what it looks like:.
Here you need to try every option and analyze what suits your report. Now you have 2 options Horizontal & Vertical and click on the little drop-down arrow. First, select the cell→Home→Alignment→Orientation→Format Cell Alignment.
In other words, you can choose the location of the text i.e towards the center, right, left, top, or bottom of the cell. The next thing you should know is Text Alignment. Until now we have been talking about the text direction or you can say Orientation. Moreover, you can manually enter a certain angle +positive or -negative next to “Degrees”.
Towards the right, under Orientation, you can simply drag the red dot upwards and downwards to add a custom angle to your text. After this, you will get a dialogue box opened in front of you. To get to the next level, again select the cells you wish to rotate and click on the last option “Format Cell Alignment”. Now for those who do not like this setup, there is something else, you can choose. This was about the default options you can use quickly over one click. In fact, you can get a sense from the symbol in front of each option about what is going to happen to your text. Now let’s try this one by one and see what happens to the text. Here you will get some default options in the drop-down. Now, Go to the Home tab and look for the Alignment tab in the ribbon. First, select the cell where you want to rotate the text. So you can fit the report on one page by playing around with the text orientation & Alignment in simple steps. Scrolling down to the next pages sometimes is annoying.
This will not only change the look but more importantly saves a lot of space. But there is a lot more that you can do with the text direction and alignments. Undoubtedly, you can change the appearance a little bit by using the Font option. But sometimes it feels boring to see the same formats, text, fonts, and of course the same boring numbers.