In MSWord, the Format Font operation includes a tab to control
Character Spacing. I don't see that feature in Excel. Is that
feature truly missing from Excel (2003), or am I just overlooking it?

I would like to be able to expand text spacing by a chosen number of
points.

Excel was not designed/developed as a word processor but as number cruncher.

That's why MS developed the Office Suite of Applications............something
for everyone.

Character spacing is not a feature supported by Excel.

You can play around with some of the Format>Cells>Alignment for indents and
justification but very little else.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:31:12 -0700, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In MSWord, the Format Font operation includes a tab to control
>Character Spacing. I don't see that feature in Excel. Is that
>feature truly missing from Excel (2003), or am I just overlooking it?
>
>I would like to be able to expand text spacing by a chosen number of
>points.

AFIK it's not there in Excel. Excel is just simply not a word processing
system. You'll find other "lack's Word ability to..." areas such as when
dealing with headers, footers and page numbering. Just a different beast.

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> In MSWord, the Format Font operation includes a tab to control
> Character Spacing. I don't see that feature in Excel. Is that
> feature truly missing from Excel (2003), or am I just overlooking it?
>
> I would like to be able to expand text spacing by a chosen number of
> points.
>
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