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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Control Heading font when printing Excel spreadsheet?
Keywords: Excel, font.
Message-ID: <4474@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 23:08:19 GMT
References: <5865@plains.NoDak.edu>
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <5865@plains.NoDak.edu>, kperson@plains.NoDak.edu (Kerry Person) writes:
> 
# Guess the heading says it all.  What am I missing here?  It seems that the font
# and point size of the heading on my spreadsheets are the same size and font as
# the first character encountered in the spreadsheet itself.  The top row of my
# spreadsheet is in Helvetica 14 pt, but I want the heading (as defined in page
# setup) to be Helvetica 24 pt.  I tried inserting a row of height zero above
# the actual top row of my sheet, setting the font of that row to 24 pt before
# shrinking it down.  No good.  The heading still comes out 14 pt.  What gives?
# 
# Kerry Person

I've never succeeded in mixing the font size of an Excel spreadsheet --
the Format Font command applies to the entire spreadsheet.

It would seem like a very useful option -- I'm quite surprised that
Microsoft hasn't done so, since nearly every other option you can 
imagine is already in Excel.
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