In Excel there are standard buttons on the menu - under Alignment - that increase or decrease the indent. You just click on it while you're in a cell and it does it. Can't find that in Sheets. Sheets, Chrome OS, Business. Upvote (129) Subscribe Unsubscribe. Follow these steps to indent data in cells: Select the cells containing text you want to indent. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, click the Increase Indent button. Each time you click the Increase Indent button, Excel adds a small amount of space between the cell border and the data itself. Does anyone know of a way to indent text within a cell? I have a lot text in one cell and want to be able to indent certain bits of it, but not all. Is there a way to do this other than putting in loads of spaces (which screws up every time I change the column width)? Any help would, as always, be much appreciated. Www.excel-networks.com Indent within a cell - This feature will make your labels appear more organized by nesting them under a column title. Go to my web sit.
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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:
- 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.)
- 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.
Figure 1. The Alignment tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
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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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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.
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Hi all
I have some structured data which uses indentations to display a hierarchy (in the 'Format Cells' dialog under 'Alignment' there is a box 'Indent' which shows the indent/hierarchy level). I'm trying to pull out this indent level without success and hope someone may have some ideas.
I looked at using Get.Cell (http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20611) but indent level doesn't seem to be an option. I tried using 53 to get contents as displayed including formatting but it doesn't include any leading spaces/tabs.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Andrew
I have some structured data which uses indentations to display a hierarchy (in the 'Format Cells' dialog under 'Alignment' there is a box 'Indent' which shows the indent/hierarchy level). I'm trying to pull out this indent level without success and hope someone may have some ideas.
I looked at using Get.Cell (http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20611) but indent level doesn't seem to be an option. I tried using 53 to get contents as displayed including formatting but it doesn't include any leading spaces/tabs.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Andrew