How to Apply a Built-In Cell Style

It’s important to understand how to apply a built-in cell style in Excel before you learn how to create and apply a custom or modified cell style.

Creating a Custom Cell Style

Here’s how to create a custom cell style by choosing your desired formatting options:

Create a Cell Style by Modifying an Existing Cell Style

If you want to tweak a few formatting options on an existing cell style to create your own version of it, here’s how:

Duplicating an Existing Cell Style

Create a duplicate of a built-in style or a custom style using the following steps:

Removing Cell Style Formatting From Worksheet Cells

Here’s how to remove a cell style’s formatting from cells of data without deleting the cell style.

Deleting a Cell Style

Except for the Normal style, which can’t be removed, it’s possible to delete all other built-in and custom cell styles.