Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Plain & Simple

Using More Colors

Excel has always been a great program for analyzing numerical data, but even Excel 2003 came up a bit short in the presentation department. In Excel 2003 and earlier versions, you could have a maximum of 56 different colors in your workbook. In addition, you had no easy way to ensure that your colors looked good next to the other colors in your workbook; that is, unless you were a graphic designer and knew what you wanted going in.

Excel 2007 offers vast improvements over the color management and formatting options found in previous versions of the program. You can have as many different colors in a workbook as you like, for example, and you can assign a design theme to a workbook. Assigning a theme to a workbook offers you color ...