Microsoft Excel
CHANGING FONTS
The appearance that you choose for your text is In Excel 2007, font just refers to the typeface or
referred to as the font or typeface. Font shape of the letters. Typical classic fonts include
traditionally refers to a combination of typeface, Times New Roman, Arial, Century Gothic and
style and size in points (e.g. Arial Bold 12 pt). Copperplate.
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Try This Yourself:
Continue using the previous
Same
file with this exercise, or open
File
the file E722 Font
Formatting_1.xls...
Click in cell A1 to make the
cell with the main heading the
active cell
Click on the drop arrow next to
the Font command in
the Font group on the Home
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tab to display a gallery of
available fonts
Point to Arial Narrow, then Book
Antiqua, Garamond and Gill
Sans MT
If you don’t have these fonts,
try different ones. As you point
to each font, the preview will
change...
Scroll to and click on Comics
Sans MS, or another font of
your choice if you don’t have
this one
This time the font formatting
has changed in the cell and is
no longer just a preview – it
won’t change again unless you
make another font selection.
For Your Reference… Handy to Know…
To apply font formatting: You can jump directly to a font. For example,
1. Select the text if you want to preview Garamond, click on the
name of the font in the Font command and
2. Click on the drop arrow for Font
press . Excel will jump to the fonts that
3. Point to a font to preview it start with G and Live Preview will display the
4. Click on the font to apply it text temporarily. Keep typing the name until
you reach the required font.
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