Excel – How to add cell padding in Excel 2010

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Is there a way to add padding to cells in Excel 2010?

The spreadsheet I'm using has cells in one column with varying row heights. I don't want to center the text, I just want it padded slightly from the left side.

Best Answer

Note: I'm on Excel 2007, but I would be surprised if this doesn't work.

Select the cells, right click, select Format Cells.

Move to the Alignment tab, set the Horizontal value to Left (Indent) and adjust the Indent value as desired.

There should be two alignment buttons on the ribbon as well (that increase or decrease the indent), they look like this:

Excel 2007 ribbon; highlighted decrease/increase indent buttons

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