If you want to add extra white space between text and cell borders, heres how.

Formatting your cells to do this will give you an extra gap between your cell border and the start of your data.

Right-click on the cells youve selected and then click the Format Cells button.

From here, you can edit everything from your cell number type to the font style.

Click Distributed (Indent) to have equal spacing between both the text and the cell borders on both sides.

If youve chosen to use the Center option, this will align your text to the middle of the cell.

You can see this in action by changing the row height to allow for a taller row.

This allows you to apply additional spacing between your cell data and each of your cell borders.

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