Excel® 2013 On Demand

Introduction

Once you’ve become familiar with Microsoft Excel and all its features, you might want to customize the way you work with Excel. You can change your view settings so that your Excel window looks the way you want it to. Excel comes with set defaults—such as opening all documents using a certain view, showing the vertical ruler, or how many files you’ve recently opened—which you can change to suit your needs.

Some of the other Excel customization features allow you to set a default font and related attributes to use when you are typing text in text boxes. Other defaults might be the color or line style of a shape object that you create. You can change the location of the Ribbon and the configuration of the Quick Access Toolbar to include ...