Aligning charts, objects on spreadsheet [excel layout tip]

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Often when you are adding several charts to your report or project plan, it may be important to have them all aligned to a proper baseline – a fundamental design principle. Take a look at this:

unaligned-charts-excel

But if you try to select each chart individually and adjust the alignment, it may not provide correct results as charts / other drawing objects can be moved by pixels instead of cells. Here is a simple trick to ensure proper alignment.

align-distribute-menu-excel
1. Select all the charts, objects you want to align to same baseline (top aligned, left aligned etc.)
2. Click on draw menu on the bottom right corner, select “Align or distribute” option, and specify your alignment choice like “align left” or “align bottom”
3. You can also distribute charts evenly across the available space on the sheet using this menu.

Btw, if you do not see “draw” menu, probably the drawing tool bar is not yet turned on.

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5 Responses to “Number to Words – Excel Formula”

  1. Nick Partridge says:

    As well as the Indian version, perhaps you could look into an English version as against the American version.
    Things diverge after one hundred with one hundred one OR one hundred AND one.
    I'm sure that it is always AND after n00 or n00,000 where there any of those zeros have a value. So five hundred thousand and sixteen. There could be two and's seven hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred and twenty-six.

  2. sandeep kothari says:

    Chandoo, you are a genius.

  3. Robert H. Gascon says:

    Hi Chandoo,
    Please take a look at my NumToWords and NumToDollars formulas that I shared here:
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/excel-numtowords-formula/m-p/727433

  4. David says:

    100000000 One Hundred FALSE Million
    Is there any reason for this error?

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