{"id":33457,"date":"2018-05-14T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=33457"},"modified":"2018-05-14T20:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:19:43","slug":"spreadsheets-excel-how-to-write-text-across-multiple-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-excel-how-to-write-text-across-multiple-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets: Excel: how to write text across multiple columns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-tutoring with Excel: the tutor shares a tip about extending text over multiple columns.<\/h1>\n<p>Let&#8217;s imagine you want to title a spreadsheet. You probably want to center the title at the top: likely it will run across more than one column, especially if the title font is larger than inside the sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I found to do so:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the row across the top.<\/li>\n<li>Right-click the selection, then choose Format Cells.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the Alignment tab.<\/li>\n<li>Under Horizontal, click the dropdown menu to reveal Center Across Selection.<\/li>\n<li>Click Center Across Selection, then OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/msoffice\/forum\/msoffice_excel-mso_other-mso_2010\/how-to-get-excel-cell-with-text-to-span-multiple\/641b23f9-7283-4b05-bdfa-74e73d62df9f\">answers.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring with Excel: the tutor shares a tip about extending text over multiple columns. Let&#8217;s imagine you want to title a spreadsheet. You probably want to center the title at the top: likely it will run across more than one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-excel-how-to-write-text-across-multiple-columns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets: Excel: how to write text across multiple columns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583,1009,1065,1],"tags":[2900],"class_list":["post-33457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-home-computer-use","category-spreadsheets","category-uncategorized","tag-how-to-extend-text-across-multiple-columns-in-excel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33457"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33480,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457\/revisions\/33480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}