StarOffice™ 5.2 Calc Handbook

Aligning Cell Entries

You've probably already got a feel for the fact that Calc treats text and numerical entries differently. In fact, when you enter text, Calc aligns it on the left of the cell, whereas values are aligned on the right of the cell. You can quickly change the horizontal alignment of text and values using the alignment tools on the Object toolbar (see Figure 3.12).

Figure 3.12. The Object toolbar provides alignment tools that make it easy to change the horizontal alignment of cell data.

Note

Remember that by default there are alignments provided to differentiate text entries from values. If you change the alignment of data in cells, ...