Open Office Calc Basic Spreadsheet Tutorial

Open Office Calc Formatting - Changing font color

Note: For help on these steps, refer to the image above. As well, if you place your mouse over an icon on a toolbar, the icon's name will be displayed.

1. Drag select cells A2 - D2 on the spreadsheet.
   
   
2. Click on the Font Color icon on the Formatting toolbar (it is a large letter " A ") to open the font color drop down list.
   
   
3. Choose White from the list to change the color of the text in cells A2 - D2 to white.
   
   
4. Drag select cells A8 - D8 on the spreadsheet.
   
   
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 above.
   
   
6. Drag select cells B4 - C6 on the spreadsheet.
   
   
7. Click on the Font Color icon on the Formatting toolbar to open the font color drop down list.
   
   
8. Choose Sea Blue from the list to change the color of the text in cells B4 - C6 to blue.
   
   
9. Drag select cells A9 - D12 on the spreadsheet.
   
   
10. Repeat steps 7 and 8 above.
    
    
11. At this point, if you have followed all the steps of this tutorial correctly, your spreadsheet should resemble the spreadsheet pictured in Step 1 of this tutorial.

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• Open Office Calc Step by Step Tutorial
• Entering Data into Open Office Calc
• Widening Columns
• Adding the Date and a Range Name
• Adding Formulas
• Changing Data Alignment
• Adding Number Formatting
• Changing cell background color
• Changing Font Color