Custom number format in Excel lets you define the color of the text in selected cells according to their values. What's more, ...

Fortunately, Excel’s Drawing toolbar makes it easy to customize the backgrounds and colors in your charts to make them stand out. Here’s the scoop.

Excel’s chart formatting options are pretty impressive, but most people never leave Excel’s default “Office” theme. There are 53 themes offered in the 2010 version for PC and 57 themes in ...