What's the padding in a cell of a spreadsheet (XLSX)?

[David Thielen]

Hi;

XLSX does not appear to have a setting for the padding in a cell, yet
cell contents are padded a bit and also the padding appears to change
between text and numbers. Any idea how this works?

thanks - dave

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

The padding you referred to is very subtle. I think it was designed like
that in consideration of aesthetics. The product team may know how the
little padding is calculated. I cannot assure you that they will tell me
the exact algorithm, but I will do my best to help you.

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[David Thielen]

Hi;

Thank you. Hopefully they will answer - I think that would be
something that should be in the XLSX spec although if it's hard-coded
and can't change, maybe not.

Hello Dave,

The padding you referred to is very subtle. I think it was designed like
that in consideration of aesthetics. The product team may know how the
little padding is calculated. I cannot assure you that they will tell me
the exact algorithm, but I will do my best to help you.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

I'm sorry, Dave, because the product team told me the implementation of the
subtle padding is not planned to be in public. There were a lot of work of
psychologists and estheticians behind the padding. The padding is a part of
Microsoft Excel product for a better use experience. It is not in the spec
partially because a fixed value of the padding won't dynamically fit the
change of font size. I'm sorry I cannot help you with this issue, but a
possible workaround is to sample the padding value with different font
sizes, then get the simulation equation from the sample data.

Regards,
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[David Thielen]

Ok, thanks

Hello Dave,

I'm sorry, Dave, because the product team told me the implementation of the
subtle padding is not planned to be in public. There were a lot of work of
psychologists and estheticians behind the padding. The padding is a part of
Microsoft Excel product for a better use experience. It is not in the spec
partially because a fixed value of the padding won't dynamically fit the
change of font size. I'm sorry I cannot help you with this issue, but a
possible workaround is to sample the padding value with different font
sizes, then get the simulation equation from the sample data.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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