Secrets of the Office Masters: Redesigning a Worksheet Clarifies the Information

When you first create a worksheet, every cell uses the same fonts, every row is the same height, and there's no distinction between headings and the data they describe. With Excel's extensive selection of formatting tools, you can redesign a worksheet to make its organization crystal clear.

When we imported data from a database into a worksheet, the results looked like a data dis aster, as the "Before" example in Figure 22.19 illustrates.

Figure 22.19.

After some careful formatting, however, the results are much easier to read and follow. Here are the basic principles ...

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