Excel Indent Text

When text is left-aligned, the indent is from the left edge of the cell. However, when text is right aligned, the indent is from the right edge of the cell. You can also see and set the indent level using the Format Cells dialog box. The current indent setting is displayed next to the horizontal alignment menu. Remove indents with cells with Decrease Indent command Most of time the users set indents With Increase Indent command or setting paddings. If imported data contains this kind of indents, you can remove them with Decrease Indent command. Step 1: Select the Range that you will remove indents. Click inside the “Type:” box and enter the following text. (1) Hold ALT then type 7 (on the numeric keypad) to insert a bullet point. (2) Type a space to insert a blank space. (3) Type in @ as a placeholder for the text. The result is that you have defined a custom number format for your bullet point lists. Below are the steps to add indentation the items (while keeping the Category text as is): Select the cells for which you want to apply the indentation. You can hold the control key and then select these cells to make sure all cells are selected (even if these are non-contiguous) Click the Format tab. There are basically two possible solutions. The first solution is using VBA. The function is quite straight forward: Function PROFEXIndentLevel (Cell As Range) 'This function returns the indentation of a cell content Application.Volatile 'With 'Application.Volatile' you can make sure, that the function will be recalculated once the worksheet is recalculated 'for example, when you press F9 (Windows) or press enter in a cell PROFEXIndentLevel = Cell.IndentLevel 'Return the IndentLevel End.

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How to remove indents within cells in Excel?

When you import data to Microsoft Excel from external source, such as web pages or Microsoft Word, there are some blank indents within cells frequently. How do you remove an indent within cells? Instead of removing each indent in cell one by one, we will introduce you some easily way to remove indents within cells quickly.

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Remove indents space with cells with Kutools for Excel

Some of indents are made with blank space. So we can use Kutools for Excel's Remove Space tool to remove all indent made with blank space in selections quickly.

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Step 1: Select the range that you will work with.

Step 2: click the Kutools >> Text Tools >> Remove Spaces….

Step 3: In the Remove Space dialog box, check the All excess spaces option, and Click OK.

Then you will see all indent made by blank space are removed immediately.

Remove indents with cells with Decrease Indent command

Most of time the users set indents With Increase Indent command or setting paddings. If imported data contains this kind of indents, you can remove them with Decrease Indent command.

Step 1: Select the Range that you will remove indents.

Step 2: Click the Home >> Decrease Indent button.

Then it removes the indent except the indents by blank space.

Note: If you select both cells that containing this kind of indent and cells that do not containing this kind of indent, this Decrease Indent command will not work. You have to select cells containing this kind of indent separately and remove them later.

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Hanging Indents In Excel