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Let's change the font color from black to white. Make sure the row is selected then click the fontcolor icon. This will display the standard color palette. Select white from the palette and we’refinished.The formatting controls on the toolbar are convenient but they only represent a fraction of the textformatting functionality you get through OpenOffice.To access more advanced options, select the format menu, then choose the cells... option. Thefont, font effects and alignment tabs contain several tools you can use to format text the way youwant.Cell alignmentAlignment lets you specify how values are placed within a cell.Right now the values in our spreadsheet are vertically aligned to the bottom of the cells. Tochange the spreadsheet so that the values align to the top of the cells use the alignment function.First, select all the cells to align. In this case we’ll choose all cells by clicking on the upper leftcorner of the spreadsheet. Next, right click one of the cells and select format cells from the popupmenu.The alignments options are found on the alignment tab of the format cells screen.24
Horizontal alignment settings determine whether an item will align to the left, right or center of acell. Vertical alignment will let you specify whether items align to the top, middle, or bottom of acell.Select the top option from the vertical alignment dropdown and click the OK button. Now thevalues in our worksheet all align to the top of the cells.There are 4 buttons on the default toolbar that will let you change the horizontal alignment of acell to align to the left, right, center or justify the text. To use these buttons, just select the itemsyou want to align and click on the desired alignment button.Rotating textTo make our list easier to use we're going to rotate the column headings for the last 11 columnsof the sheet – the columns that deal with plant hardiness zones.First, select the cells to format.Then click the format menu and choose the cells option. If it’s not already selected, click thealignment tab.We’ll want our rotated text to align to the bottom of the cell so we’ll change the vertical alignmentto bottom.Next, then set the text orientation to 90 degrees.For this function to work, make sure the automatic line break checkbox is deselected and clickOK.Now the text in the selected cells has been rotated 90 degrees and aligned to the bottom of thecell.25
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