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Month: February 2012

Formatting elements: Alignment (About horizontal alignment)

February 26, 2012 gexner

This week I’ll discuss horizontal alignment. Horizontal alignment can pretty much always be left, right, or centered.  Some spreadsheets might also offer full alignment, where the text is spaced out to fill the entire width of the cell.

Formatting elements: Alignment (How to)

February 19, 2012 gexner

In a spreadsheet, alignment is basically how the text is positioned in the cell.  There are four main aspects to alignment: horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, text wrapping, and cell merging.  There are also additional possibilities that some spreadsheets might support,… Read moreFormatting elements: Alignment (How to)

Formatting elements: Borders (Nifty tricks)

February 12, 2012 gexner

There’s actually some pretty useful things you can do using borders, although only some of them are useful in tables.

Formatting elements: Borders (How to)

February 5, 2012 gexner

Last week I talked about the do’s and don’ts of borders formatting in tables, and this week I’m going to talk about how to actually format the borders of a cell in various programs.

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