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#HOW TO CLEAR FORMATTING IN EXCEL MAC HOW TO#

Open the Clear menu and select Clear Formats.

Navigate to the Home tab > Editing group.

Alternatively, you can click on the green triangle from the upper left part of your workshhet (above row 1 and to the left of column A).

Press CTRL + A to select the entire cells from your worksheet.

Clear Hyperlinks - In case a string has become hyperlink and we want to remove the hyperlink, we can use this option.

#HOW TO CLEAR FORMATTING IN EXCEL MAC HOW TO#

Clear Comments - To only clear the comment of that cell (we will learn how to add comment for the cell later on).

Clear Contents - To only clear the content, not the formatting.

To clear the cell formats including the cell data, click on 'Clear All'. Now click on the Clear icon from Editing group on the Ribbon as displayed in the picture below and click on 'Clear Formats'. To clear the formatting of the cells, first select the cells you want to clear format from. How to clear the formatting of cells in MS Excel?

Now select the target cells you want to paste the format into.

To copy the format of a cell to other cells, we can use 'Format Painter' icon from the Ribbon.įirst select the cell you want to copy the format from and then click on 'Format Painter' icon as displayed above. How to copy the format of a cell to other cells in MS Excel? Instead of following above steps, we can do border formatting using Format Cells dialog box and select Border tab and select desired border. In this case, the applied border looks like this. To change the border style of the cell, select the cells we want to format and then click on the Border icon dropdown and then select the border style we want to apply. How to change the border style of the Excel cells? We can also achieve following formatting using this To change the background color, use Fill color icon and to change the font color use Font Color toolbar icon.Īpart from using Toolbar icons, we can also use Format Cells dialog box and select Font tab. To change the color of the cells, first select the cell and then use Font group icons as displayed below. How to change the color of the cells in Excel? We can also use other icons from the group for Percent style, Comma Style, Accounting Number Format.Īpart from Toolbar Icons, we can also use Format Cells dialog box to achieve same thing. Same as above we can also use 'Decrease Decimal' to decrease the decimal characters. To format data into Number Formats, we can use either 'Number' group from the Ribbon as displayed in below picture or Number, Currency and Accounting category from the Number tab of Format Cells dialog box (as displayed above).įor example to keep decimal characters after a number, we can use 'Increase Decimal' icon from the Ribbon group. How to format data for decimal characters, currencies values, percentage, and comma separation? This means that any cell of the Excel worksheet can accept any type of data and all are treated as string (however mathematical operations may parse the string to integer automatically).

Notice below dialog box picture and see that Category list has 'General' selected by default. Now right click that cell and select 'Format Cells.' or simply press CTRL+1 (1 should not be pressed from numberic key pad).Īnd this shows a Format Cells dialog box. The default data type of any cell in excel is 'General', to prove this write any numeric data in a cell like this. In this post, we shall learn about formatting and doing other formatting activities related with cells of Excel worksheet. In the last post, we talked about Excel Worksheet and Workbook.