A few tricks to take you beyond the basics of Microsoft Office 2010

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A few tricks to take you beyond the basics of Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Adding slanted text to worksheets.

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Excel 2010 : Adding slanted text to worksheets


Here’s a problem: you are making an Excel worksheet that is almost too wide for the page... but some of your

column headings are lots wider than the information that goes in those columns. How can you make the columns

narrower so the whole worksheet will print on a single page? How about writing column headings vertically

instead of horizontally?


Try this: Click on the cell or cells

you want to change.


Go to the top left of your screen and click on the “Home” tab.


Within the “Alignment” box, select the drop down button to give you more alignment options.


This will open the “Format Cells” dialog box. It has six tabs

along the top.


Click the Alignment tab.


Change the “Orientation” marker from horizontal to up-and-down.


In the “Text alignment” area, set the “Horizontal” alignment to “Center” and

set the “Vertical” alignment to “Bottom.”


Click on “OK.”


And there is your same column heading written vertically... so that you can now narrow the width

of the column.


To narrow your column, move your cursor in between the two columns you want to resize

until the arrow becomes a plus.


Then hold down your right mouse button while dragging the cell border to the size you want.


Let go of your right mouse button and voila … there is your new column width.


Do the same steps with the row to make the cell caption legible.

To expand your row, move the cursor in between the two rows you want to

resize until the arrow becomes a plus.

Then hold down your right

mouse button while

dragging the cell border to the size you

want.

Let go of your right mouse button and voila … there is your new column width.


Other times... when page width is not the problem but you would just like to give your worksheet a little

visual interest...


you can try setting all your column headings diagonally. (You may have to adjust the row height, as before, to contain the slanted text.)


You can adjust the “Alignment” settings to make text run up or down and slant right or left.


Another quick and easy way to adjust the orientation of your text is to simply select the cell

or cells with the text you wish modify.


Then simply select the ‘Orientation

Icon’ in the ‘Alignment’ box.


From there, choose the

orientation you prefer for your

particular spreadsheet such as the ‘Rotate Text

Up’ option.


And now we are back to our original

orientation selection.


That’s all there is to it. Now, if you would like a copy of the step-by-step directions for adding

slanted text to Excel worksheets in Excel 2010, just print this last page. Have fun slanting!

Step-by-Step to Slant Text in a Cell:

- Click on the cell or cells to be changed- Click “Home”- Click “Alignment” drop down button- Click “Alignment”- Change the “Orientation”- Choose “Text alignment”- Click “OK”- Narrow column(s) / row(s) if you wish.

Quick-Step Text Orientation:

- Click on the cell or cells to be changed

- Click on the Format Cell Alignment icon in the Alignment box.

- Choose preferred orientation

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