You can also format data bars to appear within the cell, making a concise bar graph within a worksheet. For more information, refer to Working with Conditional Formatting. WARNING: After a cell merge, if two or more selected cells have data in them, Excel will display the information from the cell closest to the upper left corner, deleting all other data. If the Alignment and Spacing section is not expanded, click it.
The Alignment and Spacing section expands. Under Indentation and Merge , select Merge cells. NOTE: The option is selected when a checkmark appears. The cells are merged.
Under Indentation and Merge , deselect Merge cells. NOTE: The option is deselected when no checkmark appears. The cells are split. If you have text that appears in a single cell and you want to increase the height of the cell without expanding the row or column, you can use the Wrap text option. Select Wrap text. Wrap text is applied. Optional To remove the text wrap, deselect Wrap text. If you want to copy only a cell's formatting you can use the Format Painter option.
This will format the destination cell the same as the source cell without changing its content. From the Standard toolbar, click Format Painter. The pointer changes shape to include a paintbrush. Highlight the desired cells to be formatted. The format you copied is applied to the cell s. From the Standard toolbar, double click Format Painter. The format you copied is applied to the cells.
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Toggle navigation. Changing the Color of a Cell Border. You can specify different colors for your borders by following these steps: Select the cells whose border colors you want to change. Make sure the Home tab of the ribbon is displayed. In the Font group, click the down-arrow next to the Borders tool.
You'll see a list of borders you can apply to the cell. Click the More Borders option at the bottom of the list. Excel displays the Border tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
See Figure 1. Figure 1. The Border tab of the Format Cells dialog box. Using the Color drop-down list, specify a color you want to use for borders. Using the controls in the dialog box, specify the borders for the cell as you normally would. Click on OK. Figure 2. Drawing using a border color. Author Bio. Jumping to a Line Number Need to jump to a specific line number in your document? On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Format Cells dialog box launcher. In the Format Cells dialog box, on the Fill tab, under Background Color , click the background color that you want to use.
To use a pattern with two colors, click another color in the Pattern Color box, and then click a pattern style in the Pattern Style box. To use a pattern with special effects, click Fill Effects , and then click the options that you want on the Gradient tab. If print options are set to Black and white or Draft quality — either on purpose, or because the workbook contains large or complex worksheets and charts that caused draft mode to be turned on automatically — cell shading cannot print in color.
On the Sheet tab, under Print , make sure that the Black and white and Draft quality check boxes are cleared. Note: If you do not see colors in the worksheet, it may be that you are working in high contrast mode. If you do not see colors when you preview before you print, it may be that you do not have a color printer selected. Select the cells that contain a fill color or fill pattern.
In Excel, you cannot change the default fill color for a worksheet. By default, all cells in a workbook contain no fill. However, if you frequently create workbooks that contain worksheets with cells that all have a specific fill color, you can create an Excel template. For example, if you frequently create workbooks where all the cells are green, you can create a template to simplify this task.
To do this, follow these steps:. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow next to Fill Color , and then select the color that you want. Tip When you change the fill colors of the cells on a worksheet, the gridlines can become difficult to see.
To make the gridlines stand out on the screen, you can experiment with border and line styles. These settings are located on the Home tab, in the Font group. To apply borders to your worksheet, select the entire worksheet, click the arrow next to Borders , and then click All Borders.
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