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Selection & Basic Formatting in Excel

Generally, many of the same formatting settings are available in Excel as in the other Microsoft
Office Suite of products. The most common items appear as buttons on the Ribbon. Those that
do not can typically be found through the Dialog Box Launcher. Also, the same as other
Microsoft products, to change an item, it must first be selected.

Follow Update Titles of Monthly Budget


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1. Select A2 through C2
2. Click on the Bold Button (Found in the Home
Tab, Font group)

This button, along with the


italics and underline buttons, is
a toggle. If a keyboard shortcut
is available, it will appear while
hovering over the button.
Hovering the buttons will often
provide details about the action.

Any changes that would be made to the font, or the appearance of the data in each cell, can
be found in the Font group. Again, not all the buttons may appear so there is also a Font
Dialog Box Launcher available.

Now that we have adjusted the look of our titles, it’s time to resize the columns so that all
the text can be seen.

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Follow Widen Columns to show full title
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1. Move your cursor to hover between column A and B, this
is done by moving your cursor into the Column Header.
2. Once you see the resizing arrow double
click.
This will auto fit the column width to the contents of the
cells. You can manually change this by clicking and
dragging with the resizing arrow instead.

In addition to changing the style of the text, you can change the way the text is arranged within the cell.
These options are incorporated into the Alignment group, also on the Home tab.

There are more options available within the dialog box. Of particular interest is the Merge & Center
option. This allows multiple cells to be combined into a single cell.

Follow Create Title for Monthly Budget


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1. Select A1 through C1
2. Click the Merge & Center button (Alignment group on Home tab).

3. In the new cell, type Monthly Budget


4. Change A2 to Expenses

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To remove text or data that is no longer needed, you can select the cells and use the delete key. This will
remove the contents of the cell or cells.

Follow Delete Data


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1. Select A8 through D9
2. Press the Delete key on your
keyboard.

Now that our Monthly Budget has been cleaned up, we’ll go through the process of saving an existing file
and exiting.

Follow Save and Close Monthly Budget


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1. Select Save from the File menu.
2. Save your file with a name “lastname_budget”
3. Close Excel.
You can exit out of Excel from the File menu by selecting Exit. Another
method is to click the X (Close) button in the top right corner of Excel.

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Let’s try another exercise!
The following exercise will ask you to create a new worksheet, enter data, format
the worksheet, and save.

1. Open Excel
2. Enter in and format your document to look like the image below.

3. Save your worksheet to the desktop, name it “lastname_Addresses”


4. Close Excel

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