Jan's Working with Numbers:

Compare Formatting between Word & Excel


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Type MS Word MS Excel
Font

font

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font size

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font style

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font color

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underline

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9 choices

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4 choices in Font dialog - different from Word: single, double, Single Accounting, Double accounting

character spacing = scale, spacing, position, kerning

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animation

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Normal font

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Number formats

decimal places
separator
decimal symbol
currency symbol
color

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General, Number, Currency,  Accounting, Date, Time, Percentage, Fraction, Scientific, Text, Special, Custom

Effects

strikethrough

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double strikethrough

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superscript

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subscript

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shadow

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outline

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emboss

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engrave

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hidden

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small caps

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all caps

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Other Features

Styles

Paragraph and character

Cell; Table

Indents

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Indents-special

Hanging and First Line

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Bullets & Numbering

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Alignment: horizontal

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Left, Center, Right

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in cell only - Left Center Right
Center print area on printed page

Alignment: vertical

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in table cell;
document on paper page

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in cell
print area on printed page

Text Orientation

using Textbox or WordArt only

In cell - top to bottom or Rotate by degrees

Shrink to Fit

Shrink document by 1 page

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Scaling to specified number of pages wide and long or to hold all columns or to hold all rows

Format Painter

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whole cell only

 


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Last updated: September 17, 2012