42 Excel
The Bold and Center buttons on the Home tab give you one-click access
to two of Excel’s popular formatting commands. Other format buttons are
shown in Table 2-3.Table 2-3 Data Format Buttons
Button Icon Purpose
Font Apply the font type.
Font Size Change the size of the font (in points).
Bold Apply a boldface font.
Italic Apply an italic font.
Underline Underline the selected text.
Align Left Left-justify the text.
Align Center Center the text.
Align Right Right-justify the text.
Percent Style Display values as percents (i.e., 0.05 = 5%).
Currency Style Display values as currency (i.e., 5.25 = $5.25).
Figure 2-5
Applying a
boldface
font and
centering
the column
titlescolumn titles are centered within each
column and displayed in a bold font(continued)