How to Indent in Excel

By default, Excel aligns numbers to the right in a cell.

And if you don’t like these numbers/texts are too close to the cell border.You can indent in a cell.

Indent using a Keyboard Shortcut

Below is the keyboard shortcut you can do.

ALT + H + 6 (to indent to the right)

ALT + H + 5 (to indent to the left)

Indent using Ribbon Options

If you prefer using the mouse instead, excel has the options in the ribbon.

Select the cells where you want to apply.

Click the Home tab

In the Alignment group, click on the indent icons (based on whether you want to indent left or right)

Note that the indentation is applied to the whole cell content.

Indenting Individual Lines in the Same Cell

In case you have multiple lines in the same cell, you may want indent only some of the cells .

This, can be done with a work-around .You can do this by manually adding the space characters .