How to Create Spaces Between Letters and Cell Borders in Excel

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How to add cell and text borders spacing in Excel

In the Excel table, the user highlights the area with the cell you want to format. Then right-click and choose Format Cells .

Next to display the table to format cells, click the Alignment tab . Then in the Horizontal section click on the drop down arrow icon and choose Left (Indent) or Right (Indent) to indent left or right in the data box that you have selected. Distributed (Indent) will make the distance between the two edges equal with the word.

In the Indent box enter the distance size that the user wants to set. Click OK to save.

The resulting text is in the box to the left margin as shown below. The space between letters and the left margin will not change, even if you change the width of the cell, but if you change the width of the cell later, you should choose Distributed (Indent).

In case you want to change the distance of your upper and lower border . We also did the above, but the Vertical select Top or Bottom and then click OK.

When we adjust the distance between the border of cells and the text in the cell need to combine Vertical and Alignment.

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