1.9 FONT FORMATTING



If you've been following along with the previous tutorials, you should now have a spreadsheet that looks like this:



Choosing a Font in Excel

 

You can pick a different font for the data you enter cells, as well as choosing the size you want. The color of the font, and the cell background, can be changed, too. Themes have been introduced, so that you can format your spreadsheets more easily. You'll meet these later. First, we'll see how to change the font type.

 

  • Highlight cell A1 on your spreadsheet by simply clicking into it.


  • Locate the Font panel on the Excel Ribbon at the top of the page:


 

The font in the panel above is set to Calibri. To see more fonts, click the black down arrow:

 


The good thing about this Excel is that when you move your mouse over one of the fonts on the list, the text in your selected cell (A1) will change automatically. This is just a preview, though. When you have decided on the font you want, click it with the left mouse button.

You can change the size of the font in the same way - just choose a new font size from the list of numbers in the drop-down box.

If you want to change the font via the Format Cells dialogue box, as you did in previous versions of Excel, you can click the small arrow in the bottom right of the Font panel:

 

When you click the arrow, you'll see the Format Cells dialogue box. You can choose various options from this dialogue box: Font size, style, size, etc. The dialogue box looks like this:

 


You can also set the font color from here and add text effects. Click OK when you have made your choices.

When you have changed the font and font size, your A1 cell might look something like this:





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