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Excel provides several different ways you can align information from top to bottom (vertically) within a cell. You set the alignment by first selecting the cells you want to format and then displaying the Alignment tab of the Format Cells dialog box. (To display the dialog box, display the Home tab of the ribbon and click the small icon at the bottom-right of the Alignment group.) (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. The Alignment tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
On the Alignment tab, use the Vertical drop-down list to make your selection. There are five different alignment options available:
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2019-07-06 04:52:08
SteveJez
Samuel,
Have a look at this article,
https://excelribbon.tips.net/T012057_Creating_Default_Formatting_for_Workbooks_and_Worksheets.html
Format your new workbook & sheet as you want it.
Alternatively, click on diagonal "arrow" to the left of the column A header & above row 1 - this selects the whole worksheet - and click on the vertical alignment button in the Alignment group on the Home tab
(see Figure 1 below)
Figure 1.
2019-07-05 16:28:16
Samuel
I too have wondered about changing the default vertical spacing in Excel. It defaults to "bottom," but i rarely, if ever, would use that. So I am *always* changing it to "centered!" Sure wish there was a way to change that!
2019-07-05 16:25:13
Samuel
I too have wondered about changing the default vertical spacing in Excel. It seems to default to "bottom," but i rarely, if ever, would use that. So I am *always* changing it to "centered!" Sure wish there was a way to change that!
2019-07-05 07:57:29
Mark
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl 1 (that's the number one not lower case "L")
2015-11-03 08:19:46
Larry
Is there a way to change the default for this setting?
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