Additional Excel Considerations

When creating documents in Excel, care should be taken to follow the same guidelines used for Word when it comes to formatting. Other considerations to to keep in mind:

• Follow the guidelines for formatting a document in Word to format text in cells.
• Format text and numbers using the text or number attributes found in the Home tab in the Number area.
• Add names do define data ranges. In the Formulas tab, click the Define Name tool.
• When creating charts or graphs, make sure to add labels to the columns or rows that contain data.