Using Format Cells to apply font settings in Excel

The Font tab in Format Cells has more options, but the ribbon has advantages for basic controls.

Let’s take a look.

The Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box contains all of these options and several more.

So, you could use Format Cells for almost all of your font formatting needs.

For example, the font menu is just a plain list and only displays six fonts at a time.

As a result, scrolling through a long list of fonts is tedious.

You’ll need to click OK to see the effect of changes in the worksheet.

In contrast, the ribbon provides a much larger and more useful font menu.

For basic font formatting, it’s a better choice.