I was wondering if there is anyway you can get an Excel document to appear like its not Excel, I saw one a few months ago that was a table/questionaire, I knew it was an excel document becasue of the file extension but other than it was hard to tell how it had been created.
2007-09-13 05:09:29 · 9 answers · asked by cocorocks 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Yeah, there are a number of ways you can. For one, you can change the color of the gridlines. Then you turn the gridlines off. You can also turn the column and row headers off and a number of other different things. To play around with the views, go to:
Tools > Options...
Then select the View tab and start playing around with the settings on the view tab.
To further make it not look like an Excel file, I believe you can even change the icon that is associated with the .xls Excel extension through Windows. And I think there may even be the possibility of changing the extension to a custom extension of your own making and still have it act like a .xls file.
So technically you could make it look totally different in a bunch of ways from your typical Excel file look.
2007-09-14 04:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean by simply taking the grid lines away so it looks like its done in a Word document or similar when you see it on the screen, or are you talking about when printing? If its when printing, merely don't put borders or grid lines around. If you want to be able to view on screen as if its a blank page like Word, the answer is yes, though you could always copy and paste into Word. Assuming you have pre-2007 version, highlight all the cells, or the entire workbook, right button of mouse down to format cells, click on fill tab and click on white. This gives a white background (or of course you can change to any colour you want) and hides the grid lines which are normally visible so that you can see what cell you are entering data into.
2007-09-15 05:59:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Tools>Options. Check the Color Tab. You can change the color of the grid lines. Check the View Tab. Uncheck Gridlines. This will show you a virtual print preview in the page break preview mode, set to 100%
God Bless
Frank Pytel
2007-09-13 10:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by Frank Pytel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do just about anything with EXCEL. I was working with a Fortune 500 company during the Y2K scare and mocked their invoices, so that if they had to run the company through the 97 program and macros, no one would be able to tell the difference!
It's easy one you get the hang of it. ;-)
2007-09-13 09:37:39 · answer #4 · answered by pricehillsaint 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right click on a toolbar and select Forms to show the Forms toolbar. This had controls for text boxes, drop down boxes and buttons etc.
You can turn off the Gridlines in Tools/Options/View tab.
And you can use Borders (formatting menu) to make and change boxes around cells, and merge cells as you please too.
2007-09-13 05:18:23 · answer #5 · answered by Fluke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot you can do with Excel as far as appearance. Background colors is one. You can create boxes, insert WordArt. headers & footers. You can lock blocks of cells so that a user can only enter data there or be blocked from entering data.
2007-09-13 05:23:27 · answer #6 · answered by 8-) Nurf Herder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, we really need more details. To me none of them look that way. Do you mean after they are printed? You can always choose the border command and not show the outlines.
2007-09-13 05:14:22 · answer #7 · answered by dino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have dots ....... for cell outline, click on Print Preview, Sheet, and deselect Gridlines.
If you have solid outlines, you can select the whole sheet, or the cells where they appear, and click on Format, Cells, Border and select None.
2007-09-14 05:10:44 · answer #8 · answered by clinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change the background colours!
2007-09-13 05:16:03 · answer #9 · answered by Baz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋