ORIENTATION

You can add interest and/or readability to text by using the orientation tool to angle your text! For example:

• Click cell E5 containing "1779."
• Click Format and Cells and then click the Alignment tab.
• In the Orientation window, click and drag the text line to 60 degrees. Click OK.
  
• Save your work.

In this instance, putting text on a diagonal is not particularly helpful. But imagine if you were putting your grades in Excel. Putting the names of tests or students at an angle would save space but still be more legible than trying to read them vertically.

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