Easy formatting text in Excel 2007

In Excel 2007, you can freely set text styles, including bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, and so on.

Format text as bold, italic, or underlined

1, select the cell, cell range, text, or character you want to format.

Tip To deselect a range of cells, click any cell in the worksheet.

2, on the Start tab, in the Font group, do one of the following:

• To make your text bold, click Bold.

Keyboard shortcuts You can also press Ctrl+b or ctrl+2.

• To make the text italic, click Italic.

Keyboard shortcuts You can also press Ctrl+i or ctrl+3.

• To make text underlined, click Underline.

Keyboard shortcuts You can also press Ctrl+u or ctrl+4.

　　note to apply a different type of underline, on the Start tab, in the Font group, click the Format Cell Font dialog Box Launcher (or press CTRL+SHIFT+F or ctrl+1) next to Font, and then under underline Select the style you want in the list.

Set text to superscript or subscript formatting

1, select the cell, cell range, text, or character you want to format.

Tip To deselect a range of cells, click any cell in the worksheet.

On the Start tab, in the Font group, click the Format Cell Font dialog Box Launcher next to Font.

Keyboard shortcuts You can also press CTRL+SHIFT+F or ctrl+1 to quickly display the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box.

Under special effects, select the Superscript or subscript check box.

Format text as Strikethrough

1, select the cell, cell range, text, or character you want to format.

Tip To deselect a range of cells, click any cell in the worksheet.

2, on the Start tab, in the Font group, click the Format Cell Font dialog Box Launcher next to Font.

Keyboard shortcuts You can also press CTRL+SHIFT+F or ctrl+1 to quickly display the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box.

3, under special effects, select the Strikethrough check box.

Keyboard shortcuts to quickly apply or remove strikethrough formatting without using a dialog box, press ctrl+5.