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Using fill effects (gradients, patterns, styles) for colorful cell background variations

Using fill effects (gradients, patterns, styles) for colorful cell background variations - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Using fill effects (gradients, patterns, styles) for colorful cell background variations

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- [Instructor] At different times, you might want 2 to add color to worksheets. 3 I think most of us might agree that as we look at this 4 particular worksheet, we've gone way overboard 5 in terms of the use of color. 6 What we have here actually are a series 7 of different fill effects, 8 and used with a certain amount of discretion. 9 I think you can see, not only are these attention getters, 10 but perhaps it does enliven the look of the worksheet. 11 Let's talk about how some of these are applied. 12 Probably the most obvious effect that we're seeing here 13 is on these cells right here. 14 And that's directly available on the home tab in the ribbon, 15 in the font group, the so-called fill color bucket. 16 Click the drop arrow, lots of choices here. 17 These will vary if you've chosen a different theme. 18 You might see some standard colors here. 19 If you used another color recently, I use magenta here, 20…

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