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:
Figure 1. The International tab of the Options dialog box.
The change doesn't affect the workbook you have open, but it does affect any new workbooks you create.
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