When Your Document Lives in Excel
Unlike Microsoft Office Word 2007, where document formatting is about a robust, professional finished product that gets your content noticed, Excel has always been about function rather than form. However, you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.
Much of the available formatting in Excel is tied to the functionality, such as tables or conditional formatting. So, when you make your documents look better, you also have the opportunity to make them perform better.
For this reason, when you work in Excel, it’s essential to think about what you need the content of your worksheets to do while you’re addressing how you want them to look. Consider the following examples.
When formatting a range of cells, instead of ...
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