Changing Horizontal Orientation

Summary: One of the international features of Excel is the ability to switch the orientation of how information is presented. This tip shows how you can change Excel's configuration to make text appear right-to-left instead of left-to-right. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 2002, and Excel 2003.)

For those who use Excel 2002 or Excel 2003 in an international environment, you may be interested in knowing that you can change the horizontal orientation of a worksheet. Normally cell A1 is in the upper-left corner of the worksheet, but you can configure Excel so that cell A1 is in the upper-right corner of any worksheets you create. Follow these steps:

Choose Options from the Tools menu. Excel displays the Options dialog box.
Make sure the International tab is displayed. (Click here to see a related figure.)
Near the bottom of the dialog box, choose the Right-to-Left radio button.
Click on OK.

The change doesn't affect the workbook you have open, but it does affect any new workbooks you create.

ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (3038) applies to Microsoft Excel versions: 2002 | 2003

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