Chapter 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great

Excel makes it easy to make even simple worksheets look professional. AutoFormat quickly formats your worksheet within the boundaries you select. If you want to format your worksheet by hand, the formatting commands you learn in this hour will enable you to pinpoint important data and highlight that data. Others can then look at your worksheets and easily find your highlighted information.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

  • What AutoFormat can do with your worksheets

  • How to apply custom formats to selected cells

  • How special orientation and wrapped text can improve your worksheet's appearance

AutoFormatting Worksheets

Before diving into additional formatting commands, remember that the AutoFormat ...

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