Microsoft Press First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System

Choosing Themes and Setting Cell Styles
Chapter 5: Extend Your Insight with Office Excel 2007 65
The way in which you can find, try out, and apply cell styles and themes in Office Excel 2007
is a huge improvement over the text-based, buried-in-the-menu options available in Office
Excel 2003. Now you can highlight an area of your worksheet; click Themes in the Page
Layout tab of the user interface; and sample a gallery of theme styles that change the color,
font, and spacing of the selected cells (see Figure 5-4).
Figure 5-4
The built-in themes enable you to apply a professional new look to your worksheet.
Tip As you can see, choosing a different theme changes a collection of format elements.
Several characteristics are included in each theme: the colors used, the fonts, and the effects.
The three tools to the right of the Themes command enable you to set each one of these items
separately, if you prefer.
Setting the format of a cell used to be something that required up-front thought and effort;
now you can apply predesigned formats to cells and ranges by simply clicking the Cell Styles
command and choosing the format from the gallery that appears (see Figure 5-5). You’ll find
the Cell Styles command in the Home tab; just click the command to view and select an
available format.