Formatting Text

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Spreadsheets can be pretty dry, so we need some tools to dress them up a little. We can use most of the same tricks we use in Microsoft Word to to do the formatting of text. We can use : bold face, italics, underline, change the color, align (left, right, center), font size, font, etc.

We need to select the cell (or group of cells) that we wish to change the formatting and then go from the FORMAT menu -- down to CELLS -- click on FONT or right click and drag your cursor down to Format Cells...left click on "Format Cells.." and pick any of the tabs that are running acrss the top of the box that shows up. Here is a picture of what you will see there. Notice that you can choose to change the alignment as well as several other options.