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Working with alignment and Wrap Text

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Working with alignment and Wrap Text

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On the Home Tab in the ribbon, there is an alignment group with a variety of tools for allowing you to line up text in different ways within cells. Here's a look you may or may not like. I'm going to highlight the cells in row 3 and using this icon right here for Orientation, click the drop arrow and maybe angle the data counterclockwise, maybe gives it a little bit of flare or possibly exploring these some more and clicking the arrow. How about Rotating the Text Up? How does that look? Could be interesting maybe. We could adjust the row height eventually too, if we wish, so that makes sense sometimes. If we want to change back here, we can simply rotate the text up again and actually that turns it back to normal or possibly could have done an undo there too. There are times when you've got data in a cell and you actually want to wrap the data, so that it appears as if you've got two rows of data in the same cell. We could certainly make column A wider, but on the other hand we might…

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