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Designing borders

Designing borders - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Designing borders

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Adding borders to a group of cells is another way to give emphasis to a particular part of a worksheet. In this worksheet here called Borders, highlighting these numbers here maybe is being done because, these are pure values, we want them to stand out a little bit differently than the other numbers. There are two ways to get to this capability. On the Home Tab, we can use the Border button right here. Click the drop arrow, tons of choices. We might just want a "thick box border", and there it is, but a little tricky to see while they're still highlighted. Many, many times when you're applying border features, you want to click elsewhere and then see the effect of what occurred. Also of help here, particularly if you're using even lighter borders than this, you might want to turn off or inhibit the display of gridlines as you work with the data. Remember, that's independent of working with the data when you're printing it. On the View Tab, you can uncheck the box for Gridlines. That…

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