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Ha ha ha. Touché
Jeremy Falcon
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Make it user configurable.  Make sure you support right-to-left languages. 
Or, as my French teacher told me, if you don't know which way the accent mark goes, just draw a horizontal line and the testers can't ding you. AKA: center-aligned.
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Every friggin' thing is configurable in our software.
This is one of the rare UI that will not be configurable
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: This is one of the rare UI that will not be configurable
Don't forget the read only checkbox they can't uncheck that says make this not configurable. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Maximilien wrote: rare UI that will not be configurable
.....until the afternoon before the scheduled release date.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Then make sure to make the number of weekday columns configurable, for when we (finally) narrow down the week to 3 days (yes, I do remember the 1970s); but allow for up to 10 days, for when we decimalise the calendar.
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that right there. leave it up to the user, but default to centering.
Better yet, add some data collection to see what users actually like. I've been a long proponent for this, as I think the vast majority of features are rarely used. I'm thinking Word, Excel, most of the Windows desktop, applications and systems I've written, etc.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Center of course for the obvious logical reason previously stated.
Also :
Vertical line separators.
Each column in alternating colors.
Upon hover icons fly around depending on column. to wit exempli gratia:
Monday flying piggies
Tuesday flying kittens
Wednesday flying puppies
Thursday flying butterflies
Friday flying froggies
Of course the library of flying icons should be user extensible.
Distinct perhaps random fonts is user optional.
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 +5 for mentioning this! I used to look forward to the weekly surveys. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I've been thinking about this and I'd categorically tell anyone asking about justifying text that would ultimately be copied and pasted, left justify it. Because of the use but also because of the westwardness of things in general.
On a lighter note:
A Zoo visiter walks past the front gate of Jack Hanna's Imperial Animal Venue and approaching the docent at the first water attraction he comes across, gazing with astonishment at the creature wallowing in the shallows below the fence, says to him "That is the strangest reptile I've ever seen" to which the docent points to the shingle hanging above and says "That's the world's meanest orneriest lizard and it's called a Crockagator, hence the sign".
The visitor reads the title of the sign and steps a couple feet closer to read the finer print beneath the bold letters and says out loud "Two-headed beast: one end the mouth of an alligator, on the other end the mouth of crocadile". He kinda scratches his head for a moment and thinks to himself then says to the docent "I see ... two heads, must be very hard to feed and eats a lot to boot. But what makes him so beastly"?
To which the docent replies: "If you had a mouth on one end of you and another mouth on the other end of you, you'd be mighty beastly too.
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Have you considered rotating 90 degrees?
So the weekdays form column one etc.
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To recover some screen space.
Abbreviate the DoW to 3 letters - and even more questionable, rotate the DoW header text to 45 or 90 degrees.
And centered.
Then, just be evile, put the tab order of the fields going top-bottom then left to right. /s
b
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I feel like you're giving right-align short shrift for no good reason.
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Always center-align columns of standalone checkboxes.
The Budster
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Why not allow it to be configurable? Default perhaps to center aligned, and right click mouse button to select left/center(/right?).
To really answer this question, best to get feedback from QA/alpha/beta testers methinks?
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Center align as the first stab, but run it by Marketing and the stakeholders before rolling it out.
Also, if you're replacing something or if there are other interfaces in the app, make sure it's consistent.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I like it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A real toe-tapper.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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oh no why is this so addictive?
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