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Excel - Smart Format

Updated July 17th, 2026

Smart Format lets you apply your company's branded formatting to tables and charts in Excel in a single click to match your organisation's standards. This ensures every visual output is on-brand without manual formatting work. This tutorial covers the different ways you can format Excel elements.

What is covered in this tutorial

This tutorial is available in different languages. To change the default language, click the Translation button in the bottom-left corner of the tutorial window.

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This tutorial guides you through the different formatting options in Excel:

  • Applying Smart Format to charts and tables.
  • Applying specific formatting for titles, items and results.
  • Accessing custom background colours, borders, font styles, number format, column width and row height.

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