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Making Your Worksheets Error-Free 32
3. If the Find What and Replace With fields are not empty, delete their contents.
4. Click the top Format button to display the Find Format dialog box. This dialog box resembles
the standard Format Cells dialog box.
5. In the Find Format dialog box, select the Font tab.
6. Select Bold in the Font Style list and then click OK.
7. Click the bottom Format button to display the Replace Format dialog box.
8. In the Replace Format dialog box, select the Font tab.
9. Select Bold Italic in the Font Style list and then click OK. At this point, the Find And Replace
dialog box resembles Figure 32.15. Notice that it displays previews of the formatting that will be
found and replaced.
10. In the Find And Replace dialog box, click Replace All. Excel locates all cells that have bold
formatting and changes the formatting to bold italic.
You can also find formatting based on a particular cell. In the Find Format dialog box, click the Choose
Format From Cell button and then click the cell that contains the formatting you’re looking for.
FIGURE 32.15
Using the Find And Replace dialog box to change formatting.
CAUTION
The Find And Replace dialog box cannot find background color formatting in tables that was
applied using table styles, or formatting that is applied based on Conditional Formatting.
Spell Checking Your Worksheets
If you use a word-processing program, you probably run its spell checker before printing an important document.
Spelling mistakes can be just as embarrassing when they appear in a spreadsheet. Fortunately,
Microsoft includes a spell checker with Excel.
To access the spell checker, choose Review ➪ Proofing ➪ Spelling, or press F7. To check the spelling in just
a particular range, select the range before you activate the spell checker.
If the spell checker finds any words it does not recognize as correct, it displays the Spelling dialog box,
shown in Figure 32.16.
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