The Formatting toolbar in Excel 2003 and earlier versions holds a variety of buttons for commonly used formatting operations on your average spreadsheet, like changing text size or style, formatting numbers, and placing borders around cells. On the Formatting toolbar, the tools are arranged into six groups of buttons (from left to right).
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