Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft® Office 2003

Chapter 19. Jazzing Up Worksheets in Excel

In this chapter

• Adding pizzazz by formatting numbers and text

• Adding lines, borders, and shading

• Formatting cells

• Splitting, merging, hiding, and unhiding cells

• Using automatic formatting

• Adding comments and other items

• Filling a series of cells

You could certainly create a spreadsheet without adding any text, special formatting, graphics, or other elements. Adding these types of elements, however, not only makes a spreadsheet look more professional but can also make it more useful and easier to read. Formatting column headings or key values in a worksheet as bold, for example, makes those headings and values easier to spot.

This chapter describes several steps you can take to format numbers and text in a worksheet, ...