Open MS Excel » Click on Office Button » Click on Excel Option » Click on Formulas » Uncheck R1C1 Reference Style Box. By this method to can change the excel column heads to ABC from 123.
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Change the font / size of row and column headings in Excel
When you use the Excel workbook, have you ever tried to change the font or size of row and column headings to make the headings bigger or more beautiful as following screenshots shown? In fact, Excel provides some tricks for you to solve this task.
- To change the column headings to letters, select Preferences. Under the Excel menu. When the Excel Preferences window appears, click on the General option under Authoring. When the General window appears, uncheck the option called ' Use R1C1 reference style ' and click on the OK button.
- The header font size should be larger than the other content of the data. The header field background color should be other than white color. So that it should be properly visible in the data. Make the outline border of the heading field. There are a lot of border styles. For border style, Go to Font section and click on an icon as per below.
- Click the 'Header/Footer' tab. Click the 'Different first page' check box so there is a check mark in the box. Once you've turned on the 'Different first page' option, you can customize the header for the first page of the spreadsheet and the header for the rest of the pages. Click 'Custom Header'.
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Change the font and size of row and column headings with Styles feature
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With the Styles feature, you can change the font and size of the row and column headings to your desired.
1. Activate the workbook that you want to change its row and column headings font and size.
2. Go to click Home tab, and in the Styles group, right click Normal, and choose Modify from the context menu to open the Style dialog, or you can also open this dialog by pressing Alt + '(single quote) keys on the keyboard.
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3. In the Style dialog box, click Format button, see screenshot:
4. And in the popped out Format Cells dialog box, choose the font, styles and size as you like under Font tab, see screenshot:
5. Then click OK > OK to close the dialogs, and the font and size of your row and column headings have been changed.
Note: This operation cannot use undo button.
Change the font of row and column headings with Fonts feature
In Excel, you can also apply the Fonts feature under Page Layout to change only the font of the row and column headings.
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1. Click Page Layout, and in the Themes group, click Fonts and choose one font you like from the drop down list. See screenshot:
And only your font of the row and column headings have been changed.
Note: The above two methods are only applied to the current workbook.
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Note: This operation cannot use undo button.
Change the font of row and column headings with Fonts feature
In Excel, you can also apply the Fonts feature under Page Layout to change only the font of the row and column headings.
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1. Click Page Layout, and in the Themes group, click Fonts and choose one font you like from the drop down list. See screenshot:
And only your font of the row and column headings have been changed.
Note: The above two methods are only applied to the current workbook.
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The Best Office Productivity Tools
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- Reuse: Quickly insert complex formulas, charts and anything that you have used before; Encrypt Cells with password; Create Mailing List and send emails...
- Super Formula Bar (easily edit multiple lines of text and formula); Reading Layout (easily read and edit large numbers of cells); Paste to Filtered Range...
- Merge Cells/Rows/Columns without losing Data; Split Cells Content; Combine Duplicate Rows/Columns... Prevent Duplicate Cells; Compare Ranges...
- Select Duplicate or Unique Rows; Select Blank Rows (all cells are empty); Super Find and Fuzzy Find in Many Workbooks; Random Select...
- Exact Copy Multiple Cells without changing formula reference; Auto Create References to Multiple Sheets; Insert Bullets, Check Boxes and more...
- Extract Text, Add Text, Remove by Position, Remove Space; Create and Print Paging Subtotals; Convert Between Cells Content and Comments...
- Super Filter (save and apply filter schemes to other sheets); Advanced Sort by month/week/day, frequency and more; Special Filter by bold, italic...
- Combine Workbooks and WorkSheets; Merge Tables based on key columns; Split Data into Multiple Sheets; Batch Convert xls, xlsx and PDF...
- More than 300 powerful features. Supports Office/Excel 2007-2019 and 365. Supports all languages. Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization. Full features 30-day free trial. 60-day money back guarantee.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Can this be done when the spreadsheet already has data in it?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks. it worked, though Excel has very unintuitive, twisted and cryptic method of doing it.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you so much!!!