Description

It's not enough to enter information into Excel. If you really want to work effectively with your data, you need to format it.

That could mean anything from adding borders to adding fill color in the header row of a table to simply formatting your numbers as currency or percentages.

So if you're ready to learn how to format the data you enter into Excel, then this is the guide for you. It'll show you how to do all of that and more with clear, easy to follow instructions.

The Easy Excel Essentials series of titles are meant to cover one specific topic of interest to users who know the basics of how to navigate Excel but want to increase their knowledge in that one particular area. If you want to increase your Excel knowledge in a more general way, see the Excel Essentials series which consists of Excel for Beginners, Intermediate Excel, 50 Useful Excel Functions, and 50 More Excel Functions. In that series, formatting is primarily covered in Excel for Beginners.