How to change the font color in Excel

Abstract

In this lesson we’ll look at how to change the font color.

Let’s take a look.

Let’s continue with our menu project and add some font colors.

Let’s make the headings one color and the menu items another.

As always, start by selecting the cells to format.

Click once to fire up the menu, then release the mouse button to browse colors.

This menu shows all of the available colors in the currently selected color scheme.

We’ll look at how to change these colors in an upcoming lesson.

To preview a color, just hover over a color square.

Excel will show a preview of this color applied.

To leave the Font color menu without applying a color, just press the Escape key.

Let’s set the color of all text to a dark gray.

Now, let’s try green for the headings.

Let’s make the green color darker.

Switch from the Standard tab to the Custom tab, and make adjustments as needed.

In this case, we can just drag the slider down to get a darker green.

When you want to use a customized color again, it’s possible for you to find it here.

Also note that the font color button remembers the last color you used.

When you click it again, Excel will apply that color.