How to Indent the Line in Excel

This practical guide walks through how to indent the line in Excel, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

1. How to indent Excel with keyboard shortcuts

To indent data to the right of a cell , we will use the keyboard shortcut Alt + H + 6 . You click on the cell you want to indent and then press the above shortcut.

To indent data to the left of the cell , you can press Alt + H + 5 .

2. Indent Excel using Ribbon tools

If you don't remember the shortcut to do when you want to indent, you can immediately use the indent tool on the Ribbon toolbar.

We also click on the cell containing the data and then look up the Home tab, in the Paragraph group we click the right or left indent icon as shown below. Then all cell contents will be indented, including different lines in a cell.

3. Indent rows in an Excel table cell

If we have many Excel lines in a cell, but only want to indent one line in the cell , you will use the Space key .

First, you double click on a cell with many lines and need to adjust the indent. Then place the mouse pointer at the position where the line you want to indent and press the Space key to indent. This way of doing this is relatively manual.