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Excel Course: Cell Size and Formatting

Formatting Cells

Select one or more cells, right click on your selection, and choose "Format Cells".


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From this window, you can personalize the display and formatting of the cells you have selected.

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The "Number" Tab

To display a numerical value with a fixed number of decimal places, choose "Number" and set the number of decimal places:

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To add a currency symbol, choose "Currency" or "Accounting":

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If the cell contains a date, you can set how you would like the date to be formatted.

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Customizing date formatting:

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You can also set the way times, and other numbers (percentages, fractions, scientific units), etc. are displayed from this tab.

The "Alignment" Tab

You can edit the vertical/horizontal alignment of the text in a cell, its orientation, active Wrap Text (for text that extends beyond cell boundaries), etc.

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The "Font" Tab

This tab allows you to customize appearance of text in the selected cells ...

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The "Border" and "Patterns" Tabs

These tabs allow you to add borders and background colors or patterns to the cell (we already covered this in the last lesson).

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