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Using the Format Cells Dialog Box 163
✦ To assign a new font style to a selection, click the appropriate tool in the Formatting toolbar: Click the Bold button (the one with B) to bold the selection, the Italic button (the one with I) to italicize the selection, and the Underline button (the one with the U) to underline the selec- tion. To assign double underlining to the cell selection, click the drop- down button attached to the Underline button and then choose Double Underline from its drop-down menu.
✦ To assign a new font color, click the Font Color pop-up button and then click the new color in the drop-down palette.
Live Preview enables you to see how the cell selection looks in a font or font size that you highlight on the Font or Font Size drop-down list — provided, of course, that the selection is not in the columns and rows obscured when these drop-down lists are displayed.
Note that you can immediately remove any font change that you make
by clicking the Undo button on the Quick Access toolbar (or by pressing Ctrl+Z). You can also remove boldface, italics, and underlining assigned to a cell selection by clicking the appropriate button (Bold, Italic, and Underline) on the Formatting toolbar. This action removes the golden box that outlines the button’s B, I, or U icon.
Selecting fonts and colors in the Format Cells dialog box
You can also select a new font, font size, font style, and font color for your selection on the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box (Ctrl+1). Figure 2-15 shows the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box that appears when an empty cell that uses the Normal style is active. In this figure, the current Font is Calibri (Body), the Font Style is Regular, the Font Size is 11 (points), the Underline is None, and the Color is Automatic.
Figure 2-15:
You can assign
new fonts, font sizes, attributes, and colors on the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
Book II Chapter 2
Formatting Worksheets