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- [Instructor] Having an attractive Dashboard can be useful to catch somebody's attention, and lead them in, and discover information in our data. There are a number of formatting tools that we can use, and we'll look at a few of them here. The formatting options can be found on the title bar. The first place we'll look at is under the Dashboard. Here, we can change the entire shading for the dashboard. Let's change it to black. Now, the worksheet titles are a little muted. Let's change the color to white so they stand out a bit better. Worksheet title is down here, and we'll change that to be white. So far, so good. Now, it looks a bit strange that we have all this white on this black background. What we'd now like to do is get rid of that, too. To do that, we need to format each individual sheet. We need to select the sheet, go to Format, and then go to Shading. Now, we can change the worksheet to be black, too. However, this doesn't change the map. This is because the map is its…

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