Getting Oriented in Excel 2010 part 2

Now you’ll recall my flippant aside about 48-degree text, the one I threw out on the opening page of this chapter. Well, if you  need or want something like that, look here (Figure 4–41):

That’s the Orientation button. Click its down arrow, and you’ll see this (Figure 4–42)

That’s a pretty illustrative, what-you-see-is-what-you-get drop-down. Select a cell, then click Vertical Text, for example, and  you get (Figure 4–43):

And so on. Note, though, that when you call upon these Orientation options they automatically raise the heights of rows (as  also happens with font size changes|) in order to accommodate their effects, unlike the vertical alignment buttons, which  require the user to heighten the rows.

When you click the last Orientation button, Format Cells: Alignment, the aforementioned Format Cells dialog box appears,  with the Alignment tab in view (Figure 4–44):

If you type a number in the Degrees field on the box’s right side and click OK, you can achieve that 48-degree angle, or any  other tilt you want, at least between -90 and 90 degrees.