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Applying fonts, background colors, and borders

Applying fonts, background colors, and borders - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Applying fonts, background colors, and borders

This worksheet has numbers formatted the way we want. We have dollars, we have percents, we have dates formatted. We're going to apply fonts, background, colors, and borders. But before we do, let's take a look at something. Let's go into the lower right corner of the Excel screen and you see we have these three view buttons. The one that's turned on by default is Normal view. But click the middle one here and this goes to Page Layout view and we can see the actual sheet of paper-- and scroll down, scroll back up. The actual sheet of paper as it will look when printed. Maybe you want to zoom out a little bit. You can click this minus button here or if you want you can hold the Ctrl key down and roll the wheel on the mouse. If you like formatting in Page Layout view or if you like formatting in Normal view, it works the same either way. So let's begin formatting the document. We have the title Travel Expenses. Let's make this look like a title. Let's select across the first row until…

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