A style.
Rule Manager
format as you type
Conditional Formatting.
A number typed in a cell has no formatting of its own. Formatting is determined by the format set for the cell. You may be asking about conditional formatting, but it is difficult to tell from your question.
You can use Conditional Formatting to achieve this.
Formatting. There are many ways of formatting dates in Excel.
When you point your cursor to any command button in excel, a preview appears and that is what I feel an Live Preview!
It will if you are asking about conditional formatting.
When a pivot table is active, you can show its toolbar in older version of Excel and in the new versions the Pivot Table tools will be on the ribbon. Standard formatting, such as fonts, can be applied with the normal formatting options available in Excel.
Merge brings one to several individual cells from Excel into Word. The formatting in the merged Word document depends on Word, not Excel. If you would like to retain the same formatting as you had in Excel, then format the target location in Word to match the cell from Excel.
While Lotus continued with a DOS interface, Excel utilized the graphic interface of Windows. This provided easier highlighting, formatting, and cut/copy/paste/move features.
It is called formatting. A wide range of formatting options are available within Excel 2010.