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Aug 6th, 2022
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  1. Import your Spreadsheet from your device, an email attachment, cloud storage, or via a link.
  2. Create new content by clicking on our Text tool above, and change its color, size, and fonts as needed.
  3. Click on our Strikeout or Whiteout tools to remove details that just don’t make sense anymore.
  4. Make visual changes by drawing or inserting pictures, lines, and icons.
  5. Highlight crucial details in your paperwork.
  6. Click on the Comment option to make a remark on your most significant changes.
  7. Transform your Spreadsheet file into a fillable template by clicking on the Manage Fields tool.
  8. Add fields for various sorts of data.
  9. Assign Roles to your fields and make them required or optional to guarantee parties fill them out correctly.
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How to Shade textbox in spreadsheet

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If you do a lot of work in spreadsheets, you know that sometimes you want to put a lot of characters in a cell. That doesnt always work well because the cell is too small. Or, if you want to put a really long line of characters. Maybe a big sentence. It can even run off the page. Google Sheets isnt smart enough to word wrap it. I will just keep it like this. It looks ugly, its hard to read. It just doesnt work very well. The way that you would work around this if you were using Microsoft Excel would be that you would insert a text box. You just go to the insert ribbon, select text box, and then you type your text into there. That takes care of the word wrapping. You can have line breaks. You can have different font colors. Different font weights. Its like a mine word processor within your spreadsheet. But, if you want to use that in Google Sheets, you cant really find it in the menus. Or, at least, its hard to find. So, the way to find it is go to Insert - Drawing and then, on

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To use the fill handle: Select the cell you want to use. A small squareknown as the fill handlewill appear in the bottom-right corner of the cell. Hover the mouse over the fill handle. Click and drag the fill handle over the cells you want to fill. Release the mouse to fill the selected cells.
Change the color of cells, tables, and text boxes On your computer, open a file in one of the following programs: Google Docs. Click the text box or highlight the cells you want to edit. To edit: The fill color of the cells or box, in the toolbar, click Fill color . Choose a preset color or create a custom color.
To change the fill color: Select the cell or cells you want to modify. Locate and select the Fill color button from the toolbar. Select a color from the drop-down menu. In our example, well choose blue. The new fill color will appear.
0:02 1:36 How to Format a Cell to Automatically Change Color Based on its Value in YouTube Start of suggested clip End of suggested clip Click on format cells if and choose the condition from the list. Add the value go to formattingMoreClick on format cells if and choose the condition from the list. Add the value go to formatting style block. Click on the fill. Color choose the color from the list.
Select the Fill tool from the toolbar or press F. (If you see the Stroke tool or the Gradient tool on the toolbar instead, click and hold the button to select the Fill tool from a pop-up menu.) Select a color by clicking the color chip in the toolbar, or by using the Color panel.
Select the cell or range of cells you want to format. Click Home Format Cells dialog launcher, or press Ctrl+Shift+F. On the Fill tab, under Background Color, pick the color you want.
Adding a Background to Text Boxes in Google Docs Choose your textbox and choose the Fill Color option highlighted in the toolbar. This is the tipping paint can icon. From the drop-down menu, choose the color you want for your text box background. Click Save and Close.
You can add shading to a text box to add some color behind the text. Select an object. Click the Fill color button on the toolbar. You can choose a color or theme color, just like choosing a border color, but you also have the option to select a color gradient. Select a fill color.
Right-click the shape that you want to add a pattern fill to and select Format Shape. In the Format Shape dialog box, click the Fill tab. In the Fill pane, select Pattern fill and then select a pattern, foreground color, and background color for your pattern fill.
Select the shape or text box. On the Drawing Tools Format tab, click Text Fill More Fill Colors. In the Colors box, either click the color you want on the Standard tab, or mix your own color on the Custom tab. Custom colors and colors on the Standard tab arent updated if you later change the document theme.

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