Fonts, colors and borders
Make a table easy to scan with bold headers, a bigger title, text and fill colors, and borders around or inside it.
In this lesson
- Fill Color and Font Color repeat their last color when you click them.
- Gridlines are only guides. Borders are lines you draw, and they stay when gridlines are off.
- Formats never change a value.
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Why your formula broke when you copied it
Lock a cell with $ so a formula keeps working when you copy it down.
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