How do I change the cell padding in excel?

[criticalpath]

I need to add white space to each row of a spreadsheet where height is
auto-adjusted. A feixed row height will not work here. Please help!

 

[Gord Dibben]

You want the whitespace at the top or bottom of the cells?

To maintain Autofit and have whitespace you can add an ALT + ENTER ahead of or
behind the text.

Try this.

Select a cell with autofit row.

F2 to edit.

Point to start of text and hit ALT + ENTER to add a blank line.

Also make sure the cell is set to "Wrap Text"

If you have a great whack to do, a macro could be provided.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Desert Piranha]

Hi Gord,
Would you pease tell me what is a "great whack"?
I'm not trying to be rude, i really don't know.
thx
Dave

 

[Gord Dibben]

A large number of cells to deal with is a "great whack".

2 is a couple
3-5 is a few
6-9 is several
10-15 is a bunch
16 and over is a great whack

Adding the line feed is a manual cell by cell operation and could take a
while.

A macro could add a line feed to all cells in a selection with the click of a
button or shortcut key combo.


Gord

 

[Desert Piranha]

Hi Gord,
Thx for the enlightenment on the "great whack". Very interesting.
Thx again
Dave

 

[suzubeane]

Is there are way to do this without adding a whole line? I just want my
text to NOT sit right on the bottom border line of the cell. I don't
want to add a whole line to do that.

FWIW, my rows are going to be all different sizes. I want to be able to
auto size them without having to edit cells or add lines. If you can
"indent" cells from the left automatically in "cell formatting," can't
you dictate how much space appears at the bottom?

Also, I have a great whack to do!

Thoughts, anyone?

 

[EdMac]

If you just want them centred vertically

Highlight rang of cells
Right click
Format>alignment>vertical>center

Ed

 

[EdMac]

Hi suzubeane,

I've been out the office for a few days.

I think you have a problem. I don't consider myself an expert but the
problem you describe is one I have come across before where rows have
varying amounts of text. The only way I know of getting the result you
want is by manually adjusting in the row headers or setting the row
height to the greatest size you expect - that may mean a lot of white
space surrounding some entries.

Alternatively, if you set the line height to an acceptable average,
then you would only have to alter the exceptions.

HTH

Ed