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Table Styles

 

Quickly format a range of cells by choosing a table style. You can also create your own table style. Quickly format a cell by choosing a cell style.

1. Click any single cell inside the data set.

Data Set in Excel

2. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Format as Table.

Click Format as Table

3. Choose a table style.

Table Styles in Excel

Note: click New Table Style to create your own table style or right click a table style and click Duplicate to create a new table style that is similar to an existing one. Modifying a custom table style affects all tables in a workbook that use that table style. This can save a lot of time.

4. Excel automatically selects the data for you. Check ‘My table has headers’ and click on OK.

Select Data

Result. This is another way to insert a table.

Table Style

To convert this table back to a normal range of cells (and keep the formatting), execute the following steps.

5. First, select a cell inside the table. Next, on the Design tab, in the Tools group, click Convert to Range.

Convert to Range

Result. A nicely formatted range of cells.

Formatted Range of Cells

Note: to remove the table style, select the range of cells, on the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Normal.

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