Microsoft Excel Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

4. Change workbook appearance

In this chapter

• Format cells

• Define and manage cell styles

• Apply and modify workbook themes

• Apply and modify table styles

• Make numbers easier to read

• Change the appearance of data based on its value

• Add images to worksheets

Efficiently entering data into a workbook saves you time, but you must also ensure that your data is easy to read and understand. Excel gives you a wide variety of ways to achieve this. For example, you can change the font, character size, or color used to present a cell’s contents. Changing how data appears on a worksheet helps set the contents of a cell apart from the contents of surrounding cells. To save time, you can define custom formats and then apply them quickly to the cells you want ...