It's not quite the same as word, but you could try
formatcellsalignmentleft(indent) there is also right(indent) and
distributed(indent) the larger the indent value the bigger the margin.

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Carlos

"Liz Geho" wrote in message
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Excel should allow users to define cell margins similar to how it works in
Word tables.

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