Format

Got financial news that's sure to please the boss? Don't bury it in a bland, black-and-white grid of hard-to-read numbers. Office expert Helen Bradley shows you how to outdo Excel's built-in formatting with intelligently colored rows or columns and cells that show data in more intuitive, eye-catching ways.

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Microsoft Excel enables you to choose a default font. The default font is the style of typeface that Excel will use unless you specify a different style...

When you open Microsoft Excel, the width of each cell is set to a default width. This width is called the standard column width...

The name "Cathy" is aligned with the left side of the cell. You can change the cell alignment...

You can bold, underline, or italicize text in Microsoft Excel. You can also combine these features -- in other words...

You can change the Font, Font Size, and Font Color of the data you enter...

Earlier you increased the column width of every column on the worksheet. You can also increase individual column widths...

You can format the numbers you enter into Microsoft Excel. You can add commas to separate thousands, specify the number of decimal places...

There will be times when you will need to insert a column or columns into your spreadsheet. To insert a column...