cell formatting
How cells look
Cell formatting refers to the visual appearance and display properties applied to cells in spreadsheet software—fonts, colors, borders, alignment, and number formats.
Formatting distinguishes headers from data, highlights important values, and makes spreadsheets readable: Apply cell formatting to show negative numbers in red.
Conditional formatting automatically changes appearance based on cell values.
- currency symbolMark indicating monetary denomination
- font sizeText dimension setting
- shadingDepicting light and darkness
- background colorBase hue of surface
- hyperlinksClickable webpage references
decimal places · indentation · column width · text alignment · text wrapping · scientific notation · borders