Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 VISUAL™ Quick Tips

Chapter 7. Presenting Worksheets

You can use Excel's formatting options to adjust almost every aspect of how your worksheets appear. Formatting results in more than just making text bold or coloring cells blue. Formatting makes your worksheets easier to read and understand and thus, more useful to others.

This chapter provides tips on formatting. You learn how to apply formats quickly with Format Painter. Format Painter speeds your work because, in just a few clicks, you can copy a format from one cell to other cells.

As you probably know, Excel gives you several tools to simplify the work of formatting. The Home tab and the Format Cells dialog box provide all the controls you need to change the look and properties of both cells and numbers. You ...