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.

This shortcut increases the indent in a cell by one step each time it is used. On Windows, you can sometimes use Ctrl+Alt+Tab to indent and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Tab to un-indent. However, The application switcher in Windows 7 seems to conflict with these shortcuts. I thought I found exactly what I needed in Excel Help which states exactly the following: 'To indent text from the left, right, or both sides of the cell, in the Horizontal box, click Left (Indent), Right (Indent), or Distributed (Indent). Then, in the Indent box, click the amount of indent you want.' Explore paragraph dialog box options There are general, indentation, and spacing options available in the Paragraph dialog box options. At the bottom of the dialog box, you can see a Preview of how the options will look before you apply them. If you want to save the settings you chose as your default, select Set as Default. 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.

To set the indent to be used in a cell, follow these steps:

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.

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Graphpad prism 5 with crack. 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.