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Strategy: Famous designer Erik Spiekermann released a font called Axel that he designed for on screen use in spreadsheets. Among the benefits of Axel:

Similar letters are clearly distinguishable. The zero is slashed to differentiate it from a capital O.

The 1 has a suitable serif to differentiate it from a lower case L. I would not have to use Ctrl+One if this book were set in Axel!.

● Legible on a monitor.

● Looks good in a PDF or printed. Embeddable in PDF. ● Many fractions, superscripts, subscripts.

Figure 1195 Axel is designed for Excel.

SHOW CHECKMARKS IN EXCEL

Problem: I have to show checkmarks in a list. How do I create a checkmark in Excel?

Strategy: Use a capital letter P and convert the font to Wingdings 2. There are actually a series of letters with checkmarks and x’s. in the P to V range.

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Figure 1196 Convert to Wingdings 2 to access these symbols.

Once you have a range formatted with Wingdings 2, you would type a P to type a checkmark or type an O for the x.

Gotcha: if you start getting circled 7’s instead, it is because you are typing a lower case p instead of a capital P.

ADD BULLETS TO EXCEL

Problem: How can I add bullets to cells in Excel?

Strategy: Word runs circles around Excel in this regard. Copy the cells from Excel. Paste to a blank Word document. In Word, select the newly pasted table. Use the Bullet dropdown in Word to apply a nice bullet. Copy the table from Word. Paste to Excel. Use the Decrease Indent button to decrease the indent.

Figure 1197 If you have a lot of bullets to add, copy the Excel data to Word.

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Alternate Strategy: Press F2 Home to edit the current cell and move to the beginning of the cell. While holding down Alt, type 7 on the Number Keypad. Type a space.

Alternate Strategy: You can create a custom number format with a bullet. Select the cells to be bulleted. Press Ctrl+one. On the Number tab, choose Custom. Click in the Type box. Hold down Alt while pressing 7 on the number keypad. Type a space and then type @. Click OK. The @ tells Excel to display whatever text is in the cell.

Figure 1198 You could then "Add Your Own Styles" on page 487

USE THE BORDER TAB IN FORMAT CELLS

Problem: Borders drive me insane. How can I take control of my borders?

Strategy: If you want your borders to have the same line color and line style, try the draw borders tools at the bottom of the Border dropdown.

1. Open the border dropdown. At the bottom, choose Line Color, and select a color.

2. Open the border dropdown again. Open the Line Style flyout and choose a line style.

3. Open the border dropdown and choose Draw Border Grid. The mouse pointer changes to a pencil. Click and drag to select a range of cells. Those cells will have your chosen line style and color as borders.

Figure 1199 Use Draw Borders Grid near the bottom of the dropdown.

Gotcha: You can keep dragging the mouse to add borders to other ranges. To exit the Draw Borders mode, press the Esc key.

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Figure 1200 These borders are drawn with Draw Border Grid.

Additional Details: If you choose Draw Border instead of Draw Border Grid, dragging the cursor draws an outline around the range instead of each cell.

Figure 1201 Draw Border surrounds a range.

Alternate Strategy: To have absolute control over borders, particularly when you want a different style on each side of a border, use the Border tab on the Format Cells dialog.

Strategy: The trick is to select the color and weight before you draw any borders. After you’ve selected a color and a line style, then you can begin drawing borders.

The large white area of the Border tab shows four sides plus a center horizontal and center vertical border. The center borders are enabled only if you are formatting a range of cells. If you are formatting a single cell, you can not choose the center horizontal bar to draw a border through the center of the cell.

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Figure 1202 The Border tab of the Format Cells dialog.

Additional Details: You can choose the small buttons around the outside of the white area in the Bor- der tab to select individual border formats. This group also includes diagonal cross-through borders. The diagonal borders cross each cell.

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Figure 1203 These borders are from the Format Cells dialog.

Gotcha: It would be nice if the color chosen in the Format Cells dialog would carry through to the border tools in the Border dropdown on the home tab. Instead, use Line Color dropdown at the bottom of the Border dropdown.

REMOVE BORDERS FROM FILLED CELLS

Problem: I used the fill handle to drag a formula from Row 2 down to all rows. But now a top border is showing in every cell.

Strategy: After dragging, open the on-grid dropdown and choose Fill Without Formatting.

Figure 1204 Prevent borders from being copied.

DOUBLE UNDERLINE A GRAND TOTAL

Problem: My boss is a CPA. He says I should double underline the grand total in a report. The Home tab of the ribbon offers a single underline icon. How can I add a double underline?

Strategy: You select the grand total cell and, in- stead of clicking the Underline icon, you click the dropdown arrow next to the Underline icon. Then you choose Double Underline.

Figure 1205 The dropdown leads to double underline.

Alternate Strategy: You can also press Ctrl+1 to access the Format Cells dialog. On the Font tab, from the Under- line dropdown you can select Single Accounting or Double Ac- counting.

Figure 1206 More underline choices.