One can select multiple Excel cells (either contiguously or not) using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Click.
To rotate the text in cells, first highlight the cells you that contain the text you want to rotate. Make sure the “Home” tab is active and click the “Orientation” button in the “Alignment” section of the “Home” tab (the button with the slanted text). Select an option to rotate the text.
How do you deselect one or more of these previously-selected cells?
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By using the SHIFT and/or the CTRL keys you can select non-contiguous ranges. However, if you select a cell or area by mistake, there is no built in way to remove that from the selection without losing the entire selection and having to start over. This page describes to VBA procedures, UnSelectActiveCell and UnSelectCurrentArea that will remove the Active Cell or the Area containing the Active Cell from the current selection. All other cells in the Selection will remain selected.
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Your best bet would be to add these to your Personal Macro workbook so thatthey are available to all open workbooks in Excel.
This procedure will remove the Active Cell from the Selection.
This procedure will remove the Area containing the Active Cell from the Selection.
duDEduDEA more robust way for deselecting multiple cells is described in this ExtendOffice article.It does include an extra prompt, but you can deselect an arbitrary number of cells/selections at once (instead of deselecting only the active cell or area)
I'm posting the script here, with a small usability improvement (conditionally removed the redundant first prompt from the original post):
To use it, you make a selection, invoke the DeselectCells macro (which is best to be saved in your Personal macro book and assigned to a shortcut) and select the cells to be deselected in the popup that appears:
It is now possible to unselect with CTRL a cell selected by mistake. It's a new built in function in Office 365 or recent versions. Finally!
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If you want to change the way data appears in a cell, you can rotate the font angle, or change the data alignment.
Align a column, or row
Select a column, or row.
Select Align Left, Center, or Align Right.
Select Top Align, Middle Align, or Bottom Align.
Align cells in a workbook
Click a cell, or press Ctrl + A to select all cells.
Select Align Left, Center, or Align Right.
Select Top Align, Middle Align, or Bottom Align.
Rotate text
Select a cell, row, column, or a range.
Click Orientation, and then select an option.
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You can rotate your text up, down, clockwise, or counterclockwise, or align text vertically.
Excel for the web doesn’t have the font orientation option for you to apply vertical text or rotate text in an angle.
If you have the Excel desktop application, you can use it to open your workbook and align or rotate text.
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