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Exploring font styles and effects

Exploring font styles and effects - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Exploring font styles and effects

On the Home Tab in the Ribbon, one of the most prominently selected group of icons is the Font Group right here. These involve changes that we might want to make to our worksheet, to make data standout a little more prominently or give greater emphasis to a title or some of our row headings, for example. Certainly, one way to get to this might be, for example, the title we have on this worksheet called Fonts, in this workbook 04-Formatting. Let's change this cell D1. The text extends into the other cells, but we could easily change the font type itself. Calibri is the most commonly used font in Excel in recent versions, but as we slide over these other choices, we can see how they might look. There are so many choices here that if you're a bit picky, you might spend a lot of time looking at some of these. You can also use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down, slide over this one, slide over that one, maybe make a choice, maybe not. Some would be, perhaps totally inappropriate for…

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