Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Plain & Simple

Chapter 7. Formatting the Worksheet

In this section:

• Formatting Cell Contents

• Adding Cell Backgrounds and Shading and Formatting Cell Borders

• Defining Cell Styles and Aligning and Orienting Cell Contents

• Apply Conditional Formatting

• Displaying Data Bars, Icon Sets, or Color Scales Based on Cell Values

• Copying Formats with the Format Painter

• Merging or Splitting Cells or Data

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 helps you manage large quantities of data with ease. One of the ways you can accomplish this is by changing how the program displays the data in your worksheet. For example, you can easily change the size of characters displayed in a cell, add color to emphasize important cells, or change the orientation of text within a cell. Excel 2007 also enables you ...