Instructions on How to Format Data in Excel

This guide provides a practical overview of Instructions on How to Format Data, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

1. Format text.

1.1 Font format, type, font size:

- Select the data to format -> Home -> Font -> quickly select the font, font size, type as shown:

Inside:

+ B (Bold): bold type.

+ I (Italic): italic type.

+ U (Underline): underlined font

- Or to detail Font dialog box, click the arrow below Font -> Format Cells dialog box appears, select the format for the text -> click OK to finish.

1.2 Border format, text color.

1.2.1 Select text color and background color:

- Select the text area to create colors -> Click Home -> Font -> select the Font Color icon -> dialog box appears -> choose the color for text:

- Select background color for text:

Select the text area to create background color -> Click Home -> Font -> select the Fill Color icon -> dialog box appears -> select the color as the background color for the text:

- Result:

1.1.2 Create borders for text:

Click Home -> Font -> select Border icon -> dialog box appears -> choose the border style for the text:

- The result of the entire text has been created contour:

- If you want to create a border as you like Click Home -> Font -> select Border icon -> dialog box appears -> More Border:

- The dialog box appears selecting the type of border, colors as shown -> click OK:

2. Align, customize position, text direction.

2.1 Alignments.

- Select text area to be aligned -> Click Home -> Alignment -> choose alignment:

: Aligns the left.

: Align justify sides.

: Right alignment.

2.2 Customize text position in cell.

- If the data cell is too wide for the text to align the text so that it is in the middle and proportional to the data cell -> align the position of the text in the cell, there are options such as the figure:

: The order in turn is: Align the text adjacent to the top of the cell (top), center the cell, and the text position at the end of the cell.

- Or you can align in the Format Cells dialog box :

- Click OK to get the results: The text in the middle of the cell is very balanced.

2.3. Customize the text direction.

- Select the text to create text direction -> Click Home -> Alignment -> Orientation -> select text direction as required.

- Or change the text direction in the Format Cells dialog box in the Alignment tab :

- Results after creating the letter direction:

3. Format the data type.

- For example, you want to format the column number data type to date data type:

- Right-click the column of quantities -> Format Cells:

- The Format Cells dialog box appears in the Number tab, selecting the Date data type .

- Result of the column of the converted date data type:

The above is a detailed guide on how to format data in Excel 2013.

Good luck!