It depends on your purpose. Sometimes too much formatting (e.g. too many different colors) is distracting to the viewers. Deciding on how much formatting you use is the artistic and functional part of designing a worksheet.
You apply conditional formatting to as many cells on a worksheet as you like.
Conditional Formatting.
Assigning formats certainly sounds like formatting to me.
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It is called formatting. You first select the cells you want to format. Then you go to the Format menu and pick the formatting option you want to use.
If you use formatting appropriately and sensibly, it can make you worksheet attractive and easy to read. Headings can often be bolded or underlined or have a bottom border on its cell for example. If you are using colours, use mixes that are easy to see, so dark on light or light on dark. Don't format just for the sake of it in an effort to jazz your worksheet up a bit. Most important of all is the data and and formulas. If they are wrong, then having a well formatted worksheet is of no great value. Concentrate on the data and use the appropriate data formatting, like currency or date or whatever. When you get everything working right, then you can move on to the cosmetic formatting to make your worksheet look better.
A quick way to copy formatting from a selected cell to two other cells on the same worksheet in Excel is to use the Format Painter tool. First, select the cell with the desired formatting, then click the Format Painter icon in the toolbar. Next, click on the two cells you want to apply the formatting to, and the formatting will be copied to them. Alternatively, you can double-click the Format Painter to apply the formatting to multiple cells consecutively.
No, not necessarily. A lot of formatting will stay the same. There are instances when formatting will change, like when using Conditional Formatting. Typing data in a particular way into a cell that clearly identifies its data format can also change the formatting, like if you type a time into a cell.
this feature allows you to choose from predesigned formats to change the appearance of a worksheet
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You do not need to use a legend with conditional formatting. Depending on why you are using conditional formatting and what it is doing, you could put something on the sheet to indicate the significance of the formatting if it was not obvious. You could put something into a cell or a text box.
You do not need to use a legend with conditional formatting. Depending on why you are using conditional formatting and what it is doing, you could put something on the sheet to indicate the significance of the formatting if it was not obvious. You could put something into a cell or a text box.