BM20:1.06 Formatting Cells Vocabulary

Arrange in a line or bring into alignment.

• align

• style

• wrap

A formatting characteristic, such as bold, italic, or underlined text.

• font

• attribute

• style

An Excel feature that enables you to specify how cells that meet one or more given conditions should be displayed.

• conditional formatting

• Rules Manager

• Paste Special

A set of text properties that affects the typeface, size, and similar aspects of text.

• font

• style

• Format Painter

A feature found in most Office applications that allows you to quickly copy formatting attributes that you have already applied and "paint" those attributes onto other text, shapes, pictures, and worksheet cells.

• Format Painter

• Paste Special

• style

A shortcut that enables you to navigate to a web page or a location in another file in just one click of the mouse.

• hyperlink

• Paste Special

• Mini toolbar

Two or more cells combined into a single cell.

• merged cells

• wrap

• style

A formatting tool that appears above or below the shortcut menu when you right-click a cell and that displays the most commonly used formatting commands.

• Mini toolbar

• Paste Special

• Format Painter

A tool that enables you to control specifically what you want to paste after using the Copy or Cut commands, such as cell content, formulas, values, formatting, and much more.

• Paste Special

• Mini toolbar

• Format Painter

A tool that enables you to set the order of multiple rules, fine-tune rule settings, and more.

• Rules Manager

• Mini toolbar

• conditional formatting