6. format worksheets
Although the information in our four worksheets is accurate and informative, it doesn’t look very good. And in this day and age, looks are almost everything. We need to dress these worksheets up to make them more presentable.
Excel offers many extremely flexible formatting options. Our worksheets can benefit from some font and number formatting, as well as alignment, borders, and color. As shown here, we’ll transform our plain Jane worksheets into worksheets that demand attention.
On the following pages, I’ll show you how to apply formatting to the January worksheet. You can repeat those steps on your own for the other worksheets in our workbook.
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set font formatting
Font formatting changes the way individual ...
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