Office 2013 In Depth

Formatting Text Entries

Formatting text entries, or labels (as we like to call them in Excel worksheets), can be as simple as assigning different font settings or alignment attributes to a cell or a range of cells. Formatting text in Excel isn’t really that much different from formatting text in Word or PowerPoint. You can easily add bold or italic to the contents of a cell or cells using commands on the Ribbon. You can also change the font and font size used by a range.

Excel also provides some cell formatting features that are a little more “flashy” than your basic font formatting attributes, such as bold, italic and underline. For example, the Orientation command enables you to rotate text in a cell or cell range. This can be particularly ...