diff --git a/src/data-table/data-cell.jsx b/src/data-table/data-cell.jsx
index adde657..d176fc8 100644
--- a/src/data-table/data-cell.jsx
+++ b/src/data-table/data-cell.jsx
@@ -90,12 +90,17 @@ class DataCell extends React.PureComponent {
     if (styleBuilder.hasComments()) {
       formattedMeasurementValue = '.';
     }
+    let textAlignment = 'Right';
+    const textAlignmentProp = styling.options.textAlignment;
+    if (textAlignmentProp) {
+      textAlignment = textAlignmentProp;
+    }
 
     let cellStyle = {
       fontFamily: styling.options.fontFamily,
       ...styleBuilder.getStyle(),
       paddingLeft: '4px',
-      textAlign: 'right'
+      textAlign: textAlignment
 
     };
     const { semaphoreColors } = styling;
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ class DataCell extends React.PureComponent {
         fontFamily: styling.options.fontFamily,
         fontSize: styleBuilder.getStyle().fontSize,
         paddingLeft: '4px',
-        textAlign: 'right'
+        textAlign: textAlignment
       };
     }
 
diff --git a/src/definition/formatted.js b/src/definition/formatted.js
index 92647c4..5997e36 100644
--- a/src/definition/formatted.js
+++ b/src/definition/formatted.js
@@ -187,6 +187,26 @@ const formatted = {
       ],
       defaultValue: 1
     },
+    textAlignment: {
+      ref: 'cellTextAlignment',
+      label: 'Cell Text alignment',
+      component: 'buttongroup',
+      options: [
+        {
+          value: 'left',
+          label: 'Left'
+        },
+        {
+          value: 'center',
+          label: 'Center'
+        },
+        {
+          value: 'right',
+          label: 'Right'
+        }
+      ],
+      defaultValue: 'right'
+    },
     ColumnWidthSlider: {
       type: 'number',
       component: 'slider',
diff --git a/src/initialize-transformed.js b/src/initialize-transformed.js
index 17b8d90..7b835ba 100644
--- a/src/initialize-transformed.js
+++ b/src/initialize-transformed.js
@@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ async function initializeTransformed ({ $element, layout, component }) {
         backgroundColorOdd: colors[`vColLib${layout.ColorSchemaP}`],
         color: layout.BodyTextColorSchema,
         fontFamily: layout.FontFamily,
-        fontSizeAdjustment: getFontSizeAdjustment(layout.lettersize)
+        fontSizeAdjustment: getFontSizeAdjustment(layout.lettersize),
+        textAlignment: layout.cellTextAlignment
       },
       semaphoreColors: {
         fieldsToApplyTo: {