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To Format Text in Bold or Italics

This document provides instructions for formatting text, numbers, and cells in a spreadsheet. It describes how to apply bold, italics, underline, font style and size, text color, borders, and fill color. The formatting options can be accessed using toolbar commands on the Home tab. Formatting allows you to customize the appearance of text, numbers, and cells to make the spreadsheet easier to read and understand. The document ends with a challenge to practice applying some of these formatting techniques to a sample spreadsheet.

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To Format Text in Bold or Italics

This document provides instructions for formatting text, numbers, and cells in a spreadsheet. It describes how to apply bold, italics, underline, font style and size, text color, borders, and fill color. The formatting options can be accessed using toolbar commands on the Home tab. Formatting allows you to customize the appearance of text, numbers, and cells to make the spreadsheet easier to read and understand. The document ends with a challenge to practice applying some of these formatting techniques to a sample spreadsheet.

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Introduction

Once you have entered information into a


spreadsheet, you will need to be able toformat it.
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the bold,
italic, and underline commands; modify the font
style, size, and color; and apply borders and fill
colors.

To Format Text in Bold or Italics:


 Left-click a cell to select it or drag your
cursor over the text in the formula bar
to select it.
 Click the Bold or Italics command.
 You can select entire columns and
rows, or specific cells. To select
the entire column, just left-click the
column heading and the entire column
will appear as selected. To
select specific cells, just left-click a cell
and drag your mouse to select the other
cells. Then, release the mouse button.

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To Format Text as Underlined:
 Select the cell or cells you want to
format.
 Click the drop-down arrow next to
the Underline command.
 Selectthe SingleUnderline or Dou
ble Underline option.

To Change the Font Style


 Select the cell or cells
you want to format.
 Left-click the drop-
down arrow next to
the Font Style box on
the Home tab.
 Select a font
style from the list.
 As you move over the
font list, the Live
Preview feature
previews the font for
you in the spreadsheet.

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To Change the Font Size:

 Select the cell or cells you want to


format.
 Left-click the drop-down
arrow next to the Font Size box on
the Home tab.
 Select a font size from the list.

To Change the Text Color:


 Select the cell or cells you
want to format.
 Left-click the drop-down
arrow next to the Text
Color command. A color
palette will appear.
 Select a color from the
palette.

OR

 Select More Colors. A dialog box will appear.


 Select a color.
 Click OK.

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To Add a Border:
 Select the cell or cells you want
to format.
 Click the drop-down
arrow next to
the Borders command on the
Home tab. A menu will appear
with border options.
 Left-click an option from the list
to select it.
 You can change the line
style and color of the border.

To add a Fill Color:


 Select the cell or cells you want to
format.
 Click the Fill command. A color
palette will appear.
 Select a color.
 Select More Colors. A dialog box
will appear.
 Select a color.
 Click OK.

You can use the fill color feature to format columns and rows,
and format a worksheet so that it is easier to read.
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To Format Numbers and Dates:
 Select the cell or cells you want to format.
 Left-click the drop-down arrow next to
the Number Format box.
 Select one of the options for formatting
numbers.

By default, the numbers appear in the General category, which


means there is no special formatting.

In the Number group, you have some other options. For


example, you can change the U.S. dollar sign to another currency
format, numbers to percents, add commas, and change the
decimal location.

Challenge!
Use the Budget or any Excel workbook you choose to complete
this challenge.

 Select a cell and format the text or numbers in it so that they


appear bolded.
 Select two or more cells and format the text or numbers so
that they appear initalics.
 Change fill color of two or more cells.
 Add a border to a row.
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