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Creating and sharing styles

Creating and sharing styles - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Creating and sharing styles

Sometimes you want to apply styles that don't exist as part of Excel's built-in style. So you can create your own. The easiest way to create your own style is to apply the formatting first just as though you're doing regular formatting and then use those cells as the example to define the style. What makes it so useful is that if you change some of the characteristics of the style like color, font, or fill or border, every cell that is tagged with that style will immediately change. So that keeps your formatting consistent and it also lets you format faster. Well, let's take a look here. We are sorted by department. Let's select the Graphics department here. It doesn't have any formatting yet, and let's change the color. So click the Color dropdown, and I will choose a green here keeping with our Olive theme, and choose a color and I'll choose white, so we have a reverse look, and let's change the font face. Let's click that and keep in mind the fonts that you have in your computer…

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