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Excel Tutorial 2 Notes

Excel Tutorial 2 Notes. Formatting a Workbook. Formatting. Formatting: process of changing a workbook’s appearance by defining fonts, styles, colors, and decorative features.

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Excel Tutorial 2 Notes

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  1. Excel Tutorial 2 Notes Formatting a Workbook

  2. Formatting • Formatting: process of changing a workbook’s appearance by defining fonts, styles, colors, and decorative features. • Theme: collection of formatting that specifies the fonts, colors, and graphical effects used throughout the workbook. • Typeface: design used for the characters.

  3. Working with Color • Color can transform your spreadsheet into a powerful presentation that captures attention and adds visual emphasis to the points you want to emphasize. • Too much color can be just as bad as not enough.

  4. Formatting Numbers • General number format: displays numbers exactly how you enter them. • Home tab Numbers group: buttons for formatting the appearance of numbers. • Some ways numbers can be formatted: • Decimals • Thousand separators • Currency • Percentage

  5. Formatting Worksheet Cells • Generally, • Text should be left-aligned • Numbers should be right-aligned • Center column titles • Alignment options are found on the home tab.

  6. Merging Cells • Merge: combine text over several columns or rows. • Merge and Center button: located on the Home tab, Alignment group.

  7. Borders • When a worksheet is printed, by default the gridlines are not printed. They can be printed by changing that option in the ribbon. • You can add borders around the cells or around the spreadsheet. • Border: adding a line around the outside boundary lines of the cell or range of cells. • Borders can be added to the left, right, top, and bottom. • Borders button is located on the Home tab, Font group.

  8. Format Cells Dialog Box • Six tabs that each focus on a different set of formatting options: • Number • Alignment • Font • Border • Fill • Protection

  9. Table Styles • Table style: formats the entire table as a single unit.

  10. Conditional Formatting • Conditional formatting: applies formatting only when a cell’s value meets a specified condition. • Example, a conditional formatting can make negative numbers red and positive numbers black. • 4 Conditional formats • Data bars • Highlighting • Color scales • Icon sets

  11. Print Titles Print titles: information that prints on each page.

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