Excel® 2013 On Demand

Introduction

Microsoft Excel offers several tools for making your worksheets look more attractive and professional. Without formatting, a worksheet can look like a sea of meaningless data. To highlight important information, you can change the appearance of selected numbers and text by adding dollar signs, commas, and other numerical formats, or by applying attributes, such as boldface, italics, and underline.

Once you’ve set up your worksheet, additional changes are available to customize your worksheet’s look. You can change the default font and font size, or maybe you’d like to adjust the alignment of data in cells. In addition to column, row, or font changes, you can add colors to cells or fonts, and include patterns to cells. You can also ...