Introduction to Calc - IMG

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