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Use and Create Cell Styles in Microsoft Excel

 Cell Styles in Microsoft Excel

Apply a Premade Cell Style in Excel

Excel does a good job of offering many premade cell styles that you can use. These cover everything from titles and headings to colors and accents to currency and number formats.

To view and apply a cell style, start by selecting a cell or range of cells. Go to the Home tab and click “Cell Styles” in the Styles section of the ribbon. Click any style to apply it to your cell(s).

On the Home tab, click Cell Styles and pick one

Create a Custom Cell Style in Excel

While there are plenty of built-in cell styles to pick from, you might prefer to create your own. This lets you choose the exact formats that you want to use, and then reuse that cell style with ease.

Head to the Home tab, click “Cell Styles,” and choose “New Cell Style.”

Click Cell Styles and pick New Cell Style

Give your custom style a name at the top of the Style box. Then, click “Format.”

Name the style and click Format

In the Format Cells window, use the various tabs to select the styles for number, font, border, and fill as you want them to apply. As an example, we’ll create My Custom Style and use a currency number format, bold and italic font, an outline border, and a gray, dotted fill pattern.

After choosing the formats that you want, click “OK,” which returns you to the Style window.

Choose the formats for the style

In the Style Includes section, you’ll see the formats that you just picked. Uncheck any formats that you don’t want to use and click “OK” when you finish.

Uncheck any cell style items

To use your custom cell style, select the cells, go to the Home tab, and click “Cell Styles.” You should see your newly created style at the top of the selection box under Custom. Click to apply it to your cells.

Click Cell Styles and pick your custom style

Note: A cell style that you create is available in all your spreadsheets, but only in the Excel workbook where you create it.

Edit a Cell Style

If you want to make changes to a custom cell style that you created or even to a premade style, head back to the Home tab. Click “Cell Styles,” right-click the style that you want to edit, and pick “Modify.”

Right-click and pick Modify

When the Style window opens, click “Format” to make your adjustments in the Format Cells window, and then click “OK.” Make any further changes in the Style window, such as inputting a new name if you’re modifying a premade style, and then click “OK” there as well.

Edited custom cell style in Excel

You can also delete a custom style that you created by choosing “Delete” instead of “Modify” in the shortcut menu.

Right-click and pick Delete

Remove a Cell Style

If you decide later on to remove a cell style that you applied, it only takes a few clicks to do so.

Select the cell(s) and go back to the Home tab. Click “Cell Styles” and choose “Normal” near the top under Good, Bad, and Neutral.

Click Cell Styles and pick Normal

Make your spreadsheet’s appearance attractive and consistent with premade or custom cell styles in Microsoft Excel!

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