It is the position in a cell that values appear, such as left, centre, right and values can also be made to appear closer to the top or bottom of a large cell.
You can align an Excel cell to left, right, and center.
Text will align to the left and numbers and dates align to the right.
Left, centred and right.
Numbers are aligned to the right, unless you apply other formatting.
Dates align to the right, because they are a type of number.
It is the default setting for text. It aligns the text to the right side of a cell. If you use left align, the text will be aligned to the left side of the cell. If you use center align, the text will be aligned in the center of the cell.
Alignment can be done through the Alignment group on the Home tab on the ribbon.
Within the Alignment section on the Home tab of Excel, you can align the text of a selected cell from center, left, right or justified. It also allow you to merge cells and wrap text.
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Use the decimal form of 12 percent which is 0.12 and format it to percentage, or type in 12% and it should align to the right as a percentage.
Format cell or range of cells (merge together) to wrap text. Also recommend you align to the top of the cell.
Usually - unless formatted differently, spreadsheet programs align data to the left for text.or right for numbers.