IBM Lotus Symphony


Setting alignment properties

You can align text in cells from the Alignment section of the Properties panel in IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ Spreadsheets. It displays when you select one or more cells, or edit text in a cell.

  1. Select the cell that you want to edit.
  2. Set the alignment properties in the Alignment section of the Properties panel.
    1. Align the text in the selected cell horizontally or vertically, by clicking the Horizontal Alignment icons or the Vertical Alignment icons.
    2. Enter the amount by which to indent text from the left edge of the cell in the Left indent field.
      Note: This option is available only when you select Align Left in step a.
    3. Select the Wrap text check box to wrap the text in the cell.
    4. Select the Merge cells check box to merge selected cells.
      Note: This option is available only when you select multi cells or a merged cell.
    5. Drag the point in the Rotation button to rotate the selected text. You can also enter the number of degrees in the field, or select the predefined rotation angle in the list.
    6. Select the Vertically stacked check box to display characters of the string vertically.
  3. Optional: Click the More options icon More in the upper-right corner of the Alignment section to open the Alignment tab in the Text and Cell properties window. You can set more other alignment properties, such as customized text orientation angles for the selected cells.

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